Log-books of HMSAmazon

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. hist. c. 252, d. 179-80
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1808-12
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Log-books of HMS Amazon off the coast of Spain and Portugal and in the Channel Squadron, 1808-12, kept by Captain William Parker.

Administrative / Biographical History

HMS Amazon.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).

Acquisition Information

The log-books were bought from Holland Brothers in 1939.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 39882-4.

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