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Revised Aug 28 2021

Providence Logbook Jul 21, 1793

Remarks Sunday 21st July 1793 Towards England

 1 pm: Fresh Gales and fair Weather with rather a foggy Horizon.

 2 pm: People Employed mending their Clothes

 5 pm: Handed the Main Sail. Cloudy Weather

 6 pm: Let fresh Water into the Ship and Worked the Pumps

 8 pm: Squally. In Royals. Double Reefed the Fore Top Sail

12 mid: Dark Cloudy Weather

 7 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast

 8 am: Fresh Gales and fair Weather. Hazy Horizon. Set Main Top Gallant Royal. Cleaned below. Mustered The Ships Company in Divisions and Performed Divine Service

11 am: Saw Porpoises

12 noon: Fresh Gales and Cloudy with bright intervals and a very hazy Horizon.
 Assistant, Packet and Guinea Men in Company
 Main Top Mast, Top Gallant and lower Steering Sails and Royals Set.


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