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The HMS Bounty prepares for its fateful trip... A slave ship burns...
The HMS Bounty prepares for its fateful trip... A slave ship burns...
Item # 704521
August 28, 1787
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, Aug. 28, 1787 The back page has an inconspicuous report noting "The ship which has been engaged by the Admiralty to make a voyage to the Society Islands for the bread-fruit which is to be transported to our West India settlement, is now completely equipped at Deptford..." with a bit more.
This was the HMS Bounty, under the command of Lieut. Bligh, which departed on its ill-fated trip on October 15.
Also on the back page is a report from Senegal that: "...an account that the Philip, Capt. Ward, with 300 slaves on board, bound to Jamaica, by some accident just as she was coming off the coast took fire, and was burnt down to the water edge, and 70 of the slaves, with five of the crew, were burnt...".
Eight pages, 9 by 12 inches, never bound nor trimmed, great condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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