Monday, October 10, 1831 Travel Journal

1831

October

Monday 10

Breakfast at 8 50/.. At the Dockyard at 9 50/..in 10 minutes – Waited 10 minutes –

Mast of Victory, 100 guns, 12 tons, 52 pieces – Cables, anchors for Nelson above 97 cwt (hundredweight), cost 1000 or 1100 £ – Cables, rope 22 and 27 inches in circumference. 

Then anchor forges, curious bellows.  2 barrels, 4 feet 6 inches diameter –

Then copper rolling place and furnace – Then shewn furnaces –

Then on board Indus, 80 guns – diagonal timbers – African and English oak – Begun 4 or 5 years ago –

Then pass the Nelson, partly teak, built in India – 120 feet, will mount 134 or 136 guns –

Then took boat and went to the King’s yacht – Shut up chairs –

Then across to the new victualling base, could not see it without an order – Landed in Cold Harbour, Gosport – Walked along the fortifications – High Street – Houses of Mr. Titcher and Mrs. Page, ill in bed –

Reimbarked for the Victory – 120 guns – Court marshal, Backhouse versus Captain Belcher of the Ætna bomb – 25 minutes there – Then landed near the boat at the water of harbour at 2 40/.. –

Then walked to King’s Stairs and all round the ramparts to the new customhouse – Bought guide book and came in at 3 35/.. –

Portsea – Southsea and Southsea Castle a mile off and Gosport – No plan of Portsmouth allowed to be published –

Fair all the while, but very rain threatening.

Off from George Hotel High Street? at 3 42/.. – at 4 10/.., Port’s bridge – 2 bridge wood? 1 over fosses – an outwork – (2 wood bridges out of Portsmouth – the last, a small part of it drawbridge)

Cosham at 4 1/4, neat good village or little town – The George Inn looks quite a publichouse where one would only stay in a pinch –

Turn right to Havant at the end of the town at 4 17/.. – Havant a village-like  little town – Neat enough little posting Inn Digby Dent, a large black bear – Then almost a continued village for some distance – Several neat cottages, ornis – the sea seen right now and the – down (left) all along at a little distance –

At the Swain Chichester at 6 – Cathedral – fine looking building, beautiful Gothic building in the middle of the street – Very good Inn –


Margin: 

Away from Docks at 11 50/.., took boat at 11 55/..

High water about 4

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH/ML/TR/11/0017 and SH/ML/TR/11/0018


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