Thursday 12th – Slept soundly
last night. Coffee bread & butter
served out for breakfast
of excellent quality but the
quantity not overabundant. Busy
fitting up the things. The con
fusion has subsided a little
this morning, as we all be-
ginning to get acquainted with
our mode of life. Dinner
beef and potatoes good. Left
the Docks at 1 P.M. amid the
cheering of the crowd assembled
on the shore. reached Gravesend
between 3 & 4 P.M. and anchored
off the town.
STANDARDISED
November 12th 1863
Slept soundly last night. Coffee, bread and butter served out for breakfast of excellent quality but the quantity not overabundant. Busy fitting up the things. The confusion has subsided a little this morning, as we are beginning to get acquainted with our mode of life. Dinner beef and potatoes, good. Left the Docks at 1pm amid the cheering of the crowd assembled on the shore. Reached Gravesend between 3 and 4 pm and anchored off the town.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
November 12th – fine and frosty
Made preparations for leaving London, weighed anchor at 1 O’clock sailed to Gravesend where we anchored about 3 O’clock having been tugged down the river by the steamer Sir William Wallace.
Gravesend 1860 from Thomas Dugdale’s Curiosities of Great Britain
