Bligh Notebook

This is a notebook Bligh kept on the launch voyage. As he explains on Page 3, "This account was kept in my bosom as a common memorandum of our time & transposed into my fair Journal evry day when the Weather would admit–with every material circumstance which passed. — It happened that Mr. Hayward had this Book with some signels sat down in it wch appear in two Pages & I appropirated the blank leaves to this use."

I have included every page with writing on it, but have transcribed only the remarks. The page numbers are my own and some are missing, I discovered some were blank after I numbered them. The images are copyrighted by the National Library of Australia and are used by permission. Due to the copyright holder's restrictions, the images are shown at approximately 77% actual size.

A note on the links below. A simple date, 4 May or 3-4 May for example, is either a narrative or a page in the style of a logbook. 'Rems' denotes remarks and often follow a logbook page, and 'Figs' denotes Bligh's position calculations and often precede the logbook pages with the same date.

1. Figures	29. 13 May	58. 28 May Rems	86. 4 Jun Rems
2. Figures	30. 14 May	59. 28 May Rems Map	87. 5 Jun
3. Bligh's Preface	31. May Map Rems	60. 29-30 May Figs	88. 5-7 Jun Figs
4. blank	15 May	61. 29 May	89. 6 Jun
5. Preface-28 Apr	33. 15-16 May Figs	62. 29 May Rems	90. 7 Jun
6. 28-29 Apr	34. 16 May	63. 30 May Restoration 1	91. 8 Jun
7. 29 Apr-1 May	35. 17 May	64. 30 May Restoration 2	92. 8-10 Jun Figs
8. 2-3 May	36. 18 May	65. 30 May Contd	93. 9 Jun
9. 3-4 May	37. 17-20 May Figs	66. 1-2 Jun Figs	94. 10 Jun
10. 4 May	38. 19 May	67. 31 May	95. 11 Jun
11. 3-4 May Figs	39. 21 May Figs	68. 31 May Rems 1	96. 11-13 Jun Figs
12. 5 May Map	40. 20 May	69. 31 May Rems 2	97. 12 Jun
13. Hayward Signals	41. 21 May	70. 31 May Rems 3	98. 12 Jun Rems
14. blank	42. fragment	71. 1 Jun	99. 13 Jun
15. 5 May	43. fragment	72. 1 Jun Rems 1	100. 13 Jun Rems 1
16. Hayward Signals	44. Prayer 1	73. 1 Jun Rems 2	101. 13 Jun Rems 2
17. 6 May	45. Prayer 2	74. 1 Jun Map	102. 14 Jun Figs
18. Signals Map 6 May	46. Prayer 3	75. 2 Jun	103. 14 Jun
19. 6 May & Figs	47. 22-23 May Figs	76. 2 Jun Rems	104. 14 Jun Rems 1
20. 7 May	48. 22 May	77. blank	105. 14 Jun Rems 2
21. 8 May	49. 23 May	78. Cape York Map	106. 14 Jun Rems 3
22. 9 May	50. 24 May	79. blank	107. 14 Jun Rems 4
23. 7-9 May Figs	51. 24-25 May Figs	80. Figures	108. 14 Jun Rems 5
24. 10 May Map Figs	52. 25 May	81. 3 Jun	109. 14 Jun Rems 6
25. 10 May	53. 26-27 May Figs	82. 3 Jun Rems 1	110. 14 Jun Rems 7
26. 11 May	54. 26 May	83. 3 Jun Rems 2	111. Map Figs
27. 11-14 May Figs	55. 27 May	84. 3-4 Jun Figs	112. Flags Figs
28. 12 May	56. 28 May Figs	85. 4 Jun
	57. 28 May

Model of Launch
The image above is of a model of the launch scratch-built by Prof. James M. Norton, Ph.D.,
Chairperson, Department of Physiology, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, in 2005.
Used by Permission.
(More images of the model can be found here.)