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The Maiden Voyage of the Charlotte Jane 1848-1850

Name: The Maiden Voyage of the Charlotte Jane 1848-1850
Brand: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
SKU: 9781839754951
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Contributors:

Miriam Lawrence (Memoir by), Cass Moggridge (Compiled by), Hal Moggridge (Cartographer)

Publisher:

Grosvenor House Publishing Limited

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Biography & Autobiography, Travel

Book Subcategory:

Maritime History & Piracy, Women, Asia

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Release Date:

2021-10-28

ISBN 13:

9781839754951

Weight:

0.93 lbs

Size:

10.00 x 7.00 x 0.48 inches

Pages:

176

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This book contains a memoir written by Miriam Lawrence describing the extraordinary voyage she made in 1848-50 aged 20. She had accompanied her husband, Captain Alexander Lawrence, on the maiden voyage of the Charlotte Jane, a wooden 3 mast merchant sailing ship. They set sail with their baby daughter, a teenage nursemaid, a surgeon and 264 emigrants for Sydney, Australia. Then they sailed to Hong Kong, Singapore, Bombay, Whampoa (Canton), returning via Cape Town to London.

Besides the memoir, there are extracts from her husband's logbook and letters to and from Miriam's parents. There are also maps showing each stage of the voyage, illustrations of the ship from the Canterbury Museum Christchurch, New Zealand, and contemporary pictures of the places visited. They were nearly shipwrecked, faced fearful storms and at one point a near mutiny. Their second child was born in the China Seas.

Miriam's writing provides an evocative account of what it had been like for a young woman to take part in such an adventure; one which many British merchant seamen were undertaking at that date: circumnavigating the world.

About the Author
Lawrence, Miriam: - MIRIAM LAWRENCE wrote this intriguing memoir for her grandchildren 40 years after the voyage she made in 1848-50 with her husband Captain ALEXANDER LAWRENCE. Dramatic extracts are included from his log which was written four times each day of voyage; so both their viewpoints are revealed from different times. They set sail in the newly constructed ship, the CHARLOTTE JANE, a three-masted wooden sailing ship built in Bristol. Later in life Alexander Lawrence became captain of the Orient which was the first ship of the Orient Line and used as a hospital ship during the Crimean War. He subsequently set up his own trading company and owned several ships. They lived in Hampstead where Miriam brought up a family of seven daughters, one of whom died aged 11, and two sons; she had two other daughters who died in infancy.Moggridge, Cass: - CASS MOGGRIDGE compiled this book. She is a retired drama therapist and counsellor who had the good fortune to discover a suitcase in the attic which contained the memoir. Her husband, Hal Moggridge, already had the voyage's logbook written by his maternal great-grandfather. Retirement has allowed for many thrilling hours to be spent by Cass deciphering the handwriting of both memoir and logbook as well as letters from the family.Moggridge, Hal: - HAL MOGGRIDGE has drawn the maps for each stage of the voyage and collected contemporary pictures of some of the places visited on the voyage. The Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand, have provided the illustrations of the Charlotte Jane. He is a landscape architect, consultant to Colvin & Moggridge and author of 'Slow Growth, on the art of landscape architecture'. Cass and Hal have three children and four grandchildren and live near the Thames in Gloucestershire.