02571ntc a22002297i 45000010005000000080041000050400026000461000031000722450023001032640016001263000027001423360021001693370023001903380032002135000017002455060028002625201266002905330077015565400079016335450481017128560148021931420140313k18311871xx            000 0|eng d  aANU:PMBcANU:PMBerda1 aDriver, Williamd1803-188610aLogbook and memoir  c1831 - 1871  a1 reel; 35mm microfilm  atext2rdacontent  acomputer2rdamedia  aonline resource2rdacarrier  aAU PMB MS 39  aAvailable for reference2 aCaptain William Driver (1803-1886) was born Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He went to sea aged 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji in quest of beche-de-mer in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee. The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on January 30, 1831, when the ship was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in March, 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier as it was feared that their island was becoming overpopulated. Driver describes this episode in some detail in an 1871 memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett. See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, December 1969:17.  aElectronic reproduction:bCanberra :cPacific Manuscripts Bureau, d2014  aAvailable for referenceuhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/copyright.php0 aCaptain William Driver was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in the USA. He went to sea at the age of 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji, looking for beche-de-mer, in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.41uhttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/digital/catalogue/index.php/logbook-and-memoirzView this item in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Catalogue.