02906ntc a22002297i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000033000722450030001052640016001353000049001513360021002003370023002213380032002445000017002765060028002935201904003215330077022255350140023025400079024428560155025211351140313k18821905xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aHamilton, Williamd1852-193710aDiaries and pearling logs  c1882 - 1905  a1 reel; 35mm microfilm; 345 page digital PDF  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB MS 15  aAvailable for reference2 aCaptain Hamilton (1852-1937) was born in Scotland and came to Australia at the age of 10. In 1882 - 1883 he made voyages from Brisbane to Vanuatu (at that time the New Hebrides), New Britain and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) in labour recruiting vessels. For a dozen or so years from the late 1890s, he ran the Hamilton Pearling Co. with luggers operating out of Komuli in the Admiralty Islands and Gizo in Solomon Islands. This company also traded in copra, tortoise shell, black lip and green snail shell. Later, Captain Hamilton had big planting interests in the Solomons, mainly on Choiseul. He died in Sydney in November, 1937. The papers copied on this microfilm are the most interesting and valuable historically of a large collection (in the Oxley Memorial Library) relating to Captain Hamilton's career. They comprise: - Diary of a recruiting voyage in the schooner Lochiel from Brisbane to the New Hebrides from September 20, 1882, to December 29, 1882. - Diary of a recruiting voyage in the schooner Jessie Kelly from Brisbane to the New Hebrides, New Britain and New Ireland from March to September, 1883. - Two reports on voyages in search of pearl shell in New Guinea and the Solomons in 1899-1900. - Log of the pearling lugger Nippon from April 20, 1901 to September 24, 1901, kept at the Hamilton Pearling Company's station at Komuli, Admiralty Islands. - Log of the Hamilton Pearling Company's station at Komuli from September 27 1902 to March 10 1903. - Logs and diaries kept by William Hamilton in the vessels Canomie, Ysabel, Gazelle and Kambin from January 1 1903 to November 14 1905. These concern the operations of the Hamilton Pearling Company in New Guinea and the Solomons. For further details of Captain Hamilton's career and of his other papers in the Oxley Memorial Library, see the Bureau's newsletter 'Pambu' October 1968:3, pp.3-6.  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  aJohn Oxley Library, State Library of QueenslandbCultural Precinct, Staley Place, Southbank, South Brisbane 4101, QueenslandcAustralia  aAvailable for referenceuhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/diaries-and-pearling-logszView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.