Logbook - Gallery 2

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The eighth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1806, covers the period from 25th September to 20th October 1806, and continues recounting the engagement with the Spanish around Montevideo, Uruguay. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The ninth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1806, covers the period from 23rd October to 24th November 1806, and continues recounting the engagement with the Spanish around Montevideo, Uruguay. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The tenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1806, covers the period from 1st December 1806 to 25th January 1807, and continues recounting the engagement with the Spanish around Montevideo, Uruguay. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The eleventh page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1807, covers the period from 2nd February 1807 to 9th May 1807, and continues recounting the engagement with the Spanish around Montevideo, Uruguay, before sailing up the River Plate to take the port of Alsinado without resistance. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.)
       
The twelfth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1807, covers the period from 28th May 1807 to 1st October 1807, and continues recounting the engagement with the Spanish around Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, before sailing back to England. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The thirteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1807, covers the period from 8th October 1807 to 18th May 1808, and the return voyage from the River Plate to England, and then onto Labrador. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The fourteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1808, covers the period from 19th May 1808 to 4th September 1808, and the voyage around Labrador and Newfoundland. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.) The fifteenth page from Andrew Service's logbook recording events on board HMS Medusa. This page, dated 1808, covers the period from 9th September 1808 to 20th January 1809, and the continued voyage Newfoundland, before sailing for England in a convoy. (GUAS Ref: UGC 182. Copyright reserved.)
 

Other Galleries 

Logbook - Gallery 1, Logbook - Gallery 3, 
Conservation of the logbook, Plans of HMS Medusa

For further information (or if you have some suggestions regarding the text of the logbook) about the On Board HMS Medusa exhibition or if you would like permission to use the images and text accompanying this exhibition, please contact us at enquiries@archives.gla.ac.uk in the first instance. 

Photo galleries

Logbook - Gallery 1

Logbook - Gallery 3

Conservation of the logbook

Plans of HMS Medusa

 

More information

Andrew Service

HMS Medusa