1st Sep, 2022 10:30
Quarterly Specialist Sale
H.M.S. Comus ships log book 1879-1881
H.M.S. Comus ships log book 1879-1881 belonging to 'F.J. Patterson' containing sea conditions and remarks from the beginning of her 1879-1884 Indian and Pacific Oceans career, commission 23rd October 1879 for service on the China Station, under the command of Captain James East and First Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) George Neville (1850-1923). Also containing Patterson's own watercolours/drawings monogrammed 'FJP' and other crew member drawings titled; 'Dezertas Island', 'Tristan da Cunha Settlement', 'Track chart from Maderia to the Cape of Good Hope', 'HMS Comus in a gale off Nagasaki, Sunday 29th March' (1881), etc. bound in vellum
HMS Comus was a corvette (reclassified in 1888 as a third-class cruiser) of the British Royal Navy. She was built by J. Elder & Co., Glasgow, laid down in 1876 and launched on the 4th April 1876.
Commissioned on the 23rd October 1879 for service on the China Station. In November of the same year, she was still completing her trials. Her first assignment was to search for the missing British ship Knowsley Hall.
(Knowsley Hall was a fully rigged three-mast ship built in 1873 by Evans R. & J. & Co. and owned by Sunderland Steam Ship Company. In May 1879 she departed Liverpool for Lyttleton, New Zealand with 35 crew members, 54 passengers and cargo when she vanished).
Comus searched the Crozet Islands and other islands in the South Indian Ocean but found nothing.
In October 1882, Comus rendered assistance to two American vessels in distress off Vancouver Island, actions for which Captain James East was Awarded a gold medal by the 21st President of the United States of America, Chester. A. Arthur.
HMS Comus was sold off for scrapping on the 17th May 1904 for £3,625 and was broken up at Barrow.
Sold for £240
H.M.S. Comus ships log book 1879-1881 belonging to 'F.J. Patterson' containing sea conditions and remarks from the beginning of her 1879-1884 Indian and Pacific Oceans career, commission 23rd October 1879 for service on the China Station, under the command of Captain James East and First Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) George Neville (1850-1923). Also containing Patterson's own watercolours/drawings monogrammed 'FJP' and other crew member drawings titled; 'Dezertas Island', 'Tristan da Cunha Settlement', 'Track chart from Maderia to the Cape of Good Hope', 'HMS Comus in a gale off Nagasaki, Sunday 29th March' (1881), etc. bound in vellum
HMS Comus was a corvette (reclassified in 1888 as a third-class cruiser) of the British Royal Navy. She was built by J. Elder & Co., Glasgow, laid down in 1876 and launched on the 4th April 1876.
Commissioned on the 23rd October 1879 for service on the China Station. In November of the same year, she was still completing her trials. Her first assignment was to search for the missing British ship Knowsley Hall.
(Knowsley Hall was a fully rigged three-mast ship built in 1873 by Evans R. & J. & Co. and owned by Sunderland Steam Ship Company. In May 1879 she departed Liverpool for Lyttleton, New Zealand with 35 crew members, 54 passengers and cargo when she vanished).
Comus searched the Crozet Islands and other islands in the South Indian Ocean but found nothing.
In October 1882, Comus rendered assistance to two American vessels in distress off Vancouver Island, actions for which Captain James East was Awarded a gold medal by the 21st President of the United States of America, Chester. A. Arthur.
HMS Comus was sold off for scrapping on the 17th May 1904 for £3,625 and was broken up at Barrow.
Auction: Quarterly Specialist Sale, 1st Sep, 2022
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