Diary kept by Margaret Colquhoun Macgillivray during a voyage from London to Adelaide on the TORRENS, 1893

Diary of Mrs Margaret Colquhoun Macgillivray, passenger, on a voyage on the clipper TORRENS (1875) from London to Port Adelaide, also an embroidered TORRENS mat, 1893. Margaret was 34 years old at the time and travelling with her husband John. The author Joseph Conrad was serving as first mate on the TORRENS at this time under Captain W H Cope.

Object details

ID: JOD/78
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1893
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts: Journals and Diaries (Manuscript)