Description compiled by Robert Steiner, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.
Lieutenant, later Captain, George A. Douglas served on board H.M.S.
Journal, describing patrols from Hong Kong along the Chinese and Japanese coast to Yokohama; landings at Tientsin and Chefoo; a patrol up the Yangtze River to Shanghai; the relief of Kah-Ding; the return to Chatham, with many sketches of ships, signals and coastal profiles (including sketches made in Egypt on H.M.S.
Purchased at Sotheby's sale, 11 July 1996.
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