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Revision as of 14:59, 24 April 2024

The personal logbook of H.M.S. Odin during her inaugural commissioning in 1903-04 from the Able Seaman John Stuart Munro was gifted to the Project by his granddaughter, Beverley in April 2024.

Munro maintained his log in pencil in a book of ruled pages and on a double-folio sheet listing ports of call and coaling information in tabular form which he placed in an envelope tucked in the pages.

The inside cover records that Munro, 22 years of age when Odin was commissioned, was part of Mess No. 12. His log runs from January 1903 until October 1904.

Tabular Record of Movement

The following is a transcription of the double-folio sheet that came with the book, written in Munro's hand. The distances appear to be in nautical miles.

colspan=4 List of Placed Visited, Dates & Distances
Arrival Place Departure Distance
Commissioned Jan 2nd 06[?] Chatham Jan 8 - 06[1]
Jan 8th 06[?]Sheerness Jan 11th 12
Jan 11th Portsmouth Jan 13th 140
Jan 16th Gibraltar Jan 19th 1,550
Jan 22nd Malta Jan 25th 960
Jan 28th Port Said Jan 29th 928
Jan 30th Suez Jan 31st 87
Feb 4th Aden Feb 6th 1,308
Feb 13th Columbo[sic] Feb 18th 2,200
Feb 23rd Singapore Mar 21st 1,488
Mar 26th Hong Kong May 4th 1,438
May 6th Langhai[?] May 9th 700
May 10th Woosung May 23rd 200
May 24th Langhai[?] Jun 7th 200
Jun 9th Kagoshima Jun 9th 388
Jun 11th Yokohama Jun 12th 534

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Logbook

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ This first entry, if transcribed correctly, contradicts the more legible information in the logbook.

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