Account of the service of Sub-Lieutenant George Keith Gordon on HMS BRITON, 1872-1874.
Typed account of service on HMS BRITON on the east coast of Africa and Zanzibar in 1873, by G. Keith Gordon, a junior officer on the ship which was involved in the suppression of the local trade in enslaved Africans. The account was written in 1932. Gordon was with Field on HMS FAWN and sent him the memoirs when Field contacted all the watchkeepers on FAWN on the fiftieth anniversary of the commissioning of the ship. The account contains details of the privations suffered during excursions after slave-carrying dhows, malaria treatments, local stories, surveying, and Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone.
Record Details
| Item reference: | FIE/43; MS/79/176 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1932 |
| Creator: | Gordon, George Keith |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Journal kept by John Bousquet Field as a midshipman on HMS PICKLE, 1839. (Manuscript) (FIE/1)
- Journal kept as a midshipman on HMS TRAFALGAR, 1870-1871. (Manuscript) (FIE/2)
- Diary, 1881. (Manuscript) (FIE/3)
- Letters from Field to his wife while in command of HMS PENGUIN, 3 October 1897 to 10 December 1897. (Manuscript) (FIE/24)
- Letters from Field to his wife while in command of HMS PENGUIN, 19 June 1898 to 7 July 1898. (Manuscript) (FIE/25)
- Letters from Field to his wife while in command of HMS PENGUIN, 10 July 1898 to 29 September 1898. (Manuscript) (FIE/26)
- Letters from Field to his wife while in command of HMS PENGUIN, 2 October 1898 to 24 October 1898. (Manuscript) (FIE/27)
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