Saturday 14th Nov!
Left Gravesend at 11.30 A.M.
Weather fine but dull the sea river
as smooth as glass, we were
towed do/wn\ past Sheerness, and
anchored for the night. Last
night we were messed and
our regulations today are
much better. all in good
spirits
STANDARDISED
November 14th 1863
Left Gravesend at 11.30am. Weather fine but dull, the river as smooth as glass. We were towed down past Sheerness, and anchored for the night. Last night we were messed and our regulations today are much better. All in good spirits.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
November 14th – fine
Weighed anchor at 1/2 past 11 O’clock, tugged down the river Thames by the steamer about 20 miles dropt anchor the wind has been very calm got tea and went to bed.
Sheerness Dockyard from stern port of the ‘Trafalgar’, 25 January 1851, Captain George Pechell Mends
