Wind  SW force 1 to 2 rising to 3 / 4. Sent second company of small arms men ashore for drill. Hauled up launch in Dockyard. Received Carpenter’s stores.

1015. Small arms men returned onboard.

PM Restoring booms. Scrubbed and washed clothes.

Wind WSW force 3 to 5 decreasing to force 2 through the day.

0500. Sent marines on shore for rifle practice. Sent dockyard party on shore. Shifted guns. 100 Mustered at Quarters.

PM. Storing booms and pointing ropes. Artificers ashore

Wind SW by W to SW force 2 to 5.

1000. Exercised at General Quarters. Party at Dockyard getting off sails. Hoisted in sails.

PM. Received stores from dockyard. Stored sails and booms.

1600 Bent on Upper sails. Mustered at Quarters. Bent on sails and crossed Top gallant yards.

Wind SW to WSW force 4 to 3 dropping to 2 at midday and then increasing to 5 later.

AM Employed cleaning after hold. Received provisions and rum. Restocking holds.

PM Stored spirit Room and hold.

Wind WSW / SW force 1 increasing to 5 through the day.

AM. Dockyard party on shore. Drawing stores and storing booms.

PM. Watch employed storing junk. Shipped 1^st gig’s davits.

1700 mustered at Quarters

Wind south westerly force 2 to 3.

AM Employed cleaning ship throughout.

PM. 1715 Divisions. Issued clean hammocks.

Wind south westerly force 2 to 3.. Temperature 85F.

1000. Mustered by Divisions to perfo9rm Divine Service.

Noon Gave special and privileged leave.

1715. Mustered at Quarters.

Wind South westerly switching to creasing to 5.

AM Dockyard party ashore.

0900 mustered at Quarters. Up screw and cleaned it and lowered it. Restored booms.

1530 In launch. Held survey on Mr S. M Spry -Navigator.  Lt. acknowledged him for preservation of life.

Wind south westerly force to 3 increasing 3 to 4 later. Dockyard party ashore. Employed making boat’s gripes. Foremost Pivot, odd and first guns crews of watch at drill.

PM Boys away sailing. Sent Galley to Dockyard to haul up and paint. Quarters. Inspected clean hammocks.

Wind south westerly force 3 to 5. Dockyard party ashore.

0900 Exercised at General and Fire Quarters. Employed making boats gripes.

PM Cutlass party at drill.

1715. Mustered at Quarters. Loading and furling sails. Down upper yards.

Wind SW force 4 to 5. Temperature 84F.

0800. Crossed Top gallant and Royal yards. 0900 Quarters. Cutlass men of watch at drill.

1130. Read Warrants for imprisonment.

PM making and mending clothes. Scrubbed and washed clothes.

Wind South westerly force 3 increasing to 5 at midday before decreasing to 1 with gusts up to 4.

0700. Steamship arrived with troops. Mustered at Quarters. Cutlass men of watch at drill. Sent Mr Spry and Mr Honey to steamer.

PM B.J company steamer left harbour. Brought in pinnace. Prepared for sea.

At anchor at Trincomalee. Wind SW force 4 to 5 decreasing to 3. Barometer 29.99 inches. Temperature 82F rising to 84F. boiler.

0640 Weighed and proceeded out of harbour under steam. Shaped course for Seychelles SE by E.

1045 made sail to single reefed topsail, courses and staysail.

1125. Stopped steaming. Employed cleaning ship.

1340 Course SE by S ¾ S.

1440. Out reefs. Set Top gallant sails and top starboard stud sail.

1715 Quarters.

1750. In stud sail. Braced up.

1940 Up Courses.

2040. Set Co…

Latitude 8.30N Longitude 82.12E. Wind South west by south force 1 to 2 increasing steady top 5. Course SE by S.

0150 sounded in 80 fathoms.

0210 Set Courses. Sounded in 76 fathoms.

0615 Friars Hood S77W. Set Royals and Forward jib. Swell from the south.

1030 Mustered by open List. Performed divine Service.

1600 Mustered at Quarters. In 1^st reef of Topsail. In Royals and Forward jib.

2300 In Top gallant sails.

Latitude 6.24N Longitude 83.50E (Equator bearing 85E 890 miles) Course SE by S. Wind SW force 5 to 6 decreasing over the day to 3 to 4.

0015. In jib.

0100.In second reefs. Trimmed, down Royal yards..

0740. Out second reef of main topsail.

0900. Quarters. Prayed.

0920 set jib. Out second reef of foretopsail.

PM. Employed making mats.1530 trimmed.

1650. Quarters. In second reef of the fore and main top sails.

2015. Out second reef of Topsails.

2100 Set main topgallant sail.

Latitude 4.47N longitude 84.46E.course South easterly until noon and then Northwesterly. Wind SW force3 to 4. (Foul Point bearing N48W 304 miles.

0500. Reset sails.

0700 Punished G. Gibson, Boy, with 24 cuts of the birch. Out reefs. Set Spanker, Fore and main Top gallant sails. Quarters. Prayers. Riflemen of watch at drill.

1000. Found bowsprit sprung and rotten. Held survey on deck.

1040 tacked.

1320 Set Port forward topmost stud sail.

1320. In Port foremost Port forward topmost stud sail and T…

Latitude 6.47N Longitude 83.11E. Course North westerly at 6 knots. Wind SW by S force 4 to 5..

0400 Found Upper Batten on main topsail yard.

0910 Read prayers. Exercised at General Quarters. Employed fishing Bowsprit. Repairing the bowsprit with fish pieces – a long piece of hardwood convex on one side and concave on the other.  They are bound on to a spar with bolts and hoops or stout rope called woolding.

1315. Out reefs in topsails.

1515. Crossed Royal yards. Set Royals, Forward jib and Ma…

Latitude 8.5N Longitude 81.35E. Course NNW. Wind variable force 1 to 3.

0245 Furled sails and got up steam in one boiler.

0405 Proceeded under easy steam.

0400 Down Top gallant and  Royal yards. Unbent Stus sails. Watch rigging spar and topmast as a derrick for getting out bowsprit.

Noon course NW by N.

1340 Reduced speed. Employed making and mending clothes. Quarters. Down Top gallant yards. Land on both bows. Sent in Jib boom.

1800 sounded in 80 fathoms. Observed foul Point Light.

1945 Course…

Course W by N. Wind force 2 to 3 increasing to 5 at midday before decreasing to 2 to 3.

0200 sounded in 80 fathoms.

1415. Commenced steaming. . In fore and aft sails.

0700 Passed foul Point light House.

0900 Quarters. Squared yards. Anchored in 11 fathoms on a sandy bottom. Shifted berth and anchored in 12 fathoms and veered to 42 fathoms. Outer buoy of dockyard S42W. York shoal buoy  N45W. Out boats. Employed in setting up derrick and its rigging. Housed fore topmast.

PM Sailmakers making boat…

Wind SW force 2 to 3.

0400 cleaned ship.

1130 Punished J Clarke with 12 cuts of birch.

1600 Mustered by Divisions with clean hammocks. Mended furl of sails. Hauled up Pinnace and second cutter.