MANUSCRIPT PILOT AND NAVIGATOR’S LOG FOR USE ABOARD HMS PALLAS 1766 - 1782. UNDER CAPTAIN RICHARD AND CAPTAIN THOMAS SPRY.

Folio (350 x 260mm), original full vellum,over 200 ll( 400 pp) including blanks, a little worn, some worming through out the volume, heaviest to the last third of the manuscript, this does not affect the text that is legible throughout, secured in a half vellum box, vellum label to upper cover. AT SEA - SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR ENTERING THE PORTS, HARBOURS AND BAYS FROM CADIZ IN SPAIN TO WEST FLORIDA, PORT ROYAL IN THE WEST INDIES AND THEN TO WEST AFRICA. THIS PILOT DESCRIBES NAVIGATING THE NUMEROUS PORTS AND HARBOURS VISITED BY THE PALLAS. The Countries and Ports Visited are as follows. Erratic dating: ALMEIRA BAY 1766-GUADALUPE 1766- ELBA 1766-MALAGA BAY 1767 – ALGIERS 1767 -MINORCA 1767- GENOA 1767- MARSEILLES- VILLA FRANCE 1768-CADIZ 1768 – GIBRALTER 1768- COSICA 1768- SARDINIA 1768- MAGDALEN ISLANDS GULF OF ST LAWRENCE 1769- NEWFOUNDLAND 1769 – PRINCE RUPERTS BAY 1770-PORT ANTONIO JAMAICA 1772- PORT ROYAL JAMAICA 1773- PORT ROYAL GULF 1770 – HISPANIOLA 1770-CUBA 1770-SPANISH MAIN 1772- TORTUGAS 1772- WEST FLORIDA 1773- PORT ROYAL 1782- ANTIGUA 1782-TENERIFFE 1775- GAMBIA 1775- SIRRA LEONE 1775- COAST OF AFRICA 1775 HORATIO NELSON was one of the crew in 1774. HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and initially served in Sir Edward Hawke's fleet blockading the coast of France where she fought at the Raid on Cherbourg and in the Battle of Bishops Court. She later served for a number of years in the Mediterranean Sea before moving to serve off the coast of Africa between 1774 and 1776 where she protected the isolated British colonies. In 1778 she joined the Newfoundland Station and participated in the attack on Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Pallas returned to the English Channel after this and assisted in destroying a French invasion force intended for the Channel Islands in 1779 before briefly serving on the Jamaica Station. In 1783 she was beached on São Jorge Island after she was found to be heavily leaking; she was burned there on 24 February.