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Lower Pool, River Thames.
Lower Pool, River Thames. The Lower Pool runs from the Cherry Garden Pier to Limekiln Creek.
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Record Details
| Item reference: | JOD/4/15 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript volumes acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | PAGE |
| Date made: | 1659-1703; 1659 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Blank page, verso to page 1. (manuscript) (JOD/4/2)
- Poem 'make use of time comming: one: for that is perished: which is gone.' (manuscript) (JOD/4/3)
- 'The Maner of the Marreners Sea Compass or the Merridianes of the World.' (manuscript) (JOD/4/4)
- Barlow describes his boyhood near Manchester, employed in farm work and carting coal but more interested in seeing the world through travel. (manuscript) (JOD/4/5)
- Barlow starts a trial placement with a whitester (bleacher) in Manchester. (manuscript) (JOD/4/6)
- Barlow does not enjoy his placement at the whitester's, and tells his parents he will not return there. (manuscript) (JOD/4/7)
- Despite the misgivings of his mother, Barlow prepares to leave his home for London. (manuscript) (JOD/4/8)
- Barlow says goodbye to his father and departs for London, travelling from Manchester on foot. (manuscript) (JOD/4/9)
- Barlow sees ships for the first time at London Bridge, close to his uncle's tavern where he starts work as a barman and servant. (manuscript) (JOD/4/10)
- Barlow visits Greenwich to see the whale which had been killed there. He decides to take a job at a tavern in Dartford. (manuscript) (JOD/4/11)
- Barlow returns to his uncle and delivers post for him in Kent, but is then offered work on a ship sailing to Barbados. His uncle refuses to let him go as he fears the man is a kidnapper. (manuscript) (JOD/4/12)
- Barlow prepares to go to sea as apprentice to the chief master's mate on the NASEBY. (manuscript) (JOD/4/13)
- Barlow travels with his new master's wife towards Chatham, where the NASEBY is lying. (manuscript) (JOD/4/14)
- Lower Pool, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/15)
- Limehouse Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/16)
- Section of the River Thames, Deptford to Blackwall. (manuscript) (JOD/4/17)
- Bugsby's Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/18)
- Woolwich Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/19)
- Woolwich. (manuscript) (JOD/4/20)
- Barking Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/21)
- Erith Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/22)
- Erith Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/23)
- Long Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/24)
- Long Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/25)
- Gravesend Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/26)
- Gravesend Reach, River Thames. (manuscript) (JOD/4/27)
- Lower Hope, Thames Estuary. (manuscript) (JOD/4/28)
- Sea Reach, Thames Estuary. (manuscript) (JOD/4/29)
- Sea Reach, Thames Estuary. (manuscript) (JOD/4/30)
- Nore and Sheerness, Thames Estuary. (manuscript) (JOD/4/31)
- Blackstakes, Medway. (manuscript) (JOD/4/32)
- Long Reach, Medway. (manuscript) (JOD/4/33)
- Long Reach, Medway. (manuscript) (JOD/4/34)
- Gillingham Reach, Medway. (manuscript) (JOD/4/35)
- Upnor and Chatham Reaches, Medway. (manuscript) (JOD/4/36)
- Barlow joins the NASEBY at Chatham and two days later they set sail to the Nore. (manuscript) (JOD/4/37)
- The NASEBY sets sail from the Hope and Barlow receives a head injury when struck by a bar. (manuscript) (JOD/4/38)
- The NASEBY sails with the fleet to Elsinore, where they sight the Dutch fleet but do not see action in the war between Sweden and Denmark. (manuscript) (JOD/4/39)
- The fleet returns home but encounters bad weather in the North Sea. (manuscript) (JOD/4/40)
- The fleet runs into danger as they approach Chatham because the pilots mistakenly direct the ships into shallow water. (manuscript) (JOD/4/41)
- Barlow has a severe illness as a result of his earlier head wound, and convalesces at a cook shop in Whitechapel, where he is put to work. (manuscript) (JOD/4/42)
- In March 1660 Barlow rejoins the NASEBY, which receives orders to lead a fleet of fourteen ships to fetch King Charles II from exile in The Hague. (manuscript) (JOD/4/43)
- Goodwin Sands, Kent. (manuscript) (JOD/4/44)
- The Downs, Kent. (manuscript) (JOD/4/45)
- King Charles II and his two brothers take ship to sail back to England from Holland, accompanied by much ceremony and rejoicing. (manuscript) (JOD/4/46)
- The Ship ROYAL CHARLES. (manuscript) (JOD/4/47)
- The King arrives back in England, and the NASEBY is renamed the ROYAL CHARLES. The Duke of York embarks on her to meet his sister the Queen of Bohemia, but hears of the death of his brother the Duke of Gloucester. (manuscript) (JOD/4/48)
- Barlow remains on board the ROYAL CHARLES while she is moored at Gillingham for the winter. He explains the difficulties he and others had receiving and keeping their pay. (manuscript) (JOD/4/49)
- Barlow joins the AUGUSTAINE at Woolwich, a Flemish-built ship carrying spare masts for the fleet and bound for Algiers. (manuscript) (JOD/4/50)
- Barlow's ship sails to North Africa via Portugal, reaching Malaga in Spain. The sailors are put on a short allowance of food, which is of poor quality. (manuscript) (JOD/4/51)
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