Personal Logbook of H.M.S. Odin, 1903-04

The personal logbook of H.M.S. Odin during her inaugural commissioning in 1903-04 for service on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station with a tabular record of movement for her 1906-07 service on the China Station from the Able Seaman John Stuart Munro was gifted to the Project by his granddaughter, Beverley in April 2024.

Munro maintained his log for the first deployment in pencil in a book of ruled pages and compressed his T.R.O.M. for the second tour onto a double-folio sheet listing ports of call and coaling information in tabular form which he placed in an envelope tucked in the pages.

Logbook 1903-04

The inside cover records that Munro, 22 years of age when Odin was commissioned, was part of Mess No. 12.

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Tabular Record of Movement 1906-07

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.

List of Placed Visited, Dates & Distances
Arrival	Place	Departure	Distance
Commissioned	Jan 2nd 1906 Chatham	Jan 8th
Jan 8th	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	Shanghai[?]	May 9th	700
May 10th	Woosung[?]	May 23rd	200
May 24th	Shanghai[?]	Jun 7th	200
Jun 9th	Kagoshima[?]	Jun 9th	388
Jun 11th	Yokohama	Jun 12th	534
Jun 14th	Kagoshima	Jun 14th	574
Jun 15th	Nagasaki	Jun 19th	300
Jun 19th	Sasebo	Jun 22nd	60
Jun 23rd	Kure	Jun 26th	200
Jun 128th	Kobe	Jul 6th	200
Jul 7th	Yokohama	Jul 21st	160
Jul 22nd	Isinomaki[?]	Jul 24th	244
Jul 24nd	Yamada	Jul 25th	116
Jul 25th	Mizako	Jul 26th	40
Jul 28th	Dakodate[?]	Aug 4th	100
Aug 4th	Funakawa Wan[?]	Aug 5th	150
Aug 5th	Futami (Sadi Island)[?]	Aug 6th	120
Aug 6th	Matsugashita	Aug 7th	110
Aug 8th	Maidzura[?]	Aug 10th	130
Aug 10th	Mizuku[?]	Aug 11th	169
Aug 11th	Finkawa Bay (Senzaki)	Aug 12th	80
Aug 12th	Fusan	Aug 15th	120
Aug 15th	Port Hamilton	Aug 17th	110
Aug 18th	Wei Hai Wei	Sep 10th	360
Sep 11th	Champepo	Sep 16th	240
Sep 17th	Dalny	Sep 22nd	290
Sep 28th	Taku	Sep 28th	160
Sep 29th	Chefoo	Oct 1st	150
Oct 1st	Wei Hai Wei	Oct 19th	40
Oct 22nd	Mirs Bay	Oct 31st	1,200
Nov 1st	Hong Kong	Feb 9th 1907	40
Feb 13th	Singapore	Feb 20th	1,430
Feb 23rd	Christmas Islands	Feb 23rd	800
Feb 25th	Keeling Islands	Feb 28th	610
Mar 4th	Pulo Weh	Mar 5th	1,100
Mar 6th	Penang	Mar 11th	320
Mar 11th	Dingding	Mar 13th	97
Mar 14th	Malacca	Mar 15th	170
Mar 16th	Singapore	Mar 22nd	110[?]
Mar 24th	Labuan	Mar 28th	890
Mar 28th	Jesselton	Mar 30th	104
Mar 30th	Kudal	Apr 3rd	185
Apr 6th	Hong Kong	Apr 10th	1,080[?]
Apr 10th	Mirs Bay	Apr 15th	40
Apr 15th	Hong Kong	Apr 25th	40
Apr 25th	Mirs Bay	Apr 26th	40
Apr 27th	Hoe Hau (Hainan Islands)	Apr 28th	310
Apr 30th	Hong Kong	May 2nd	710
May 3rd	Takao (Formosa)	May 4th	360
May 4th	Amping	May 5th	40
May 5th	Nahang (Pescadores)	May 6th	76
May 9th	Kobe	May 20th	1,060
May 20th	Bingo Nada (Inland Sea)	May 21st	108
May 21st	Sua Nada	May 23rd	110
May 24th	Port Hamilton	May 26th	200
May 27th	Chemulpo	May 31st	290
Jun 1st	Wei Hai Wei	Jul 4th	232
Jul 5th	Shang Hai Kwan	Jul 5th	15
Jul 6th	Wei Hai Wei	Jul 22nd	200
Jul 24th	Miko Bay	Jul 25th	700
Jul 25th	Mizadzu	Jul 28th	110
Jul 29th	Niigata	Jul 30th	260
Jul 31st	Hakadau	Aug 5th	260
Aug 7th	Amoru	Aug 8th	58
Aug 8th	Hakadau	Aug 12th	58
Aug 13th	Otaru	Aug 17th	215
Aug 18th	Vladimir Bay	Aug 19th	260
Aug 20th	Vladivostok	Aug 25th	205
Aug 25th	Korniloff	Aug 26th	110
Aug 27th	Gensau (Port Lazerelff)	Aug 29th	215
Aug 28th[sic]	Port Lazerelff	Aug 30th	12
Aug 31st	Imari	Sep 2nd	416
Sep 2nd	Nagasaki	Sep 6th	92
Sep 10th	Yokohama	Sep 23rd	695
Typhoon 15 miles out of course			150
Sep 25th	Kagoshima	Sep 28th	580
Oct 2nd	Hong Kong	Oct 21st	1,067
Oct 21st	Mirs Bay	Oct 21st	40

Coaling Stops 1906-07

Amount of Coal Taken in from Jan 2nd 06 till
Place	Date	Amount
Chatham	Jan 6th 1906	1,750
Gibraltar	Jan 18th 1906	750
Malta	Jan 22nd 1906	700
Suez	Jan 30th 1906	480
Aden	Feb 5th 1906	600
Columbo	Feb 13-14th 1906	1,100
Singapore	Mar 2nd 1906	1,200
Hong Kong	Apr 11th 1906	1,250
Shanghai	May 8th 1906	950
Shanghai	May 25th 1906	700
Nagasaki	Jun 18th 1906	350
Yokohama	Jul 11th 1906	1,500
Port Hamilton	Aug 16th 1906	900
Wei Hai Wei	Sep 3rd 1906	750
Wei Hai Wei	Oct 16th 1906	900
Hong Kong	Nov 12th 1906	200 CHECK
Hong Kong	Nov 12th 1906	1,450 CHECK
Hong Kong	Feb 7th 1907	250
Singapore	Feb 19th 1907	1,215
Pulo Wei	Mar 5th 1907	430
Singapore	Mar 16th 1907	1,435
Hong Kong	Apr 9th 1907	1,380
Hong Kong	Apr 16th 1907	320
Hong Kong	[illeg]	700[?]
Kobe	May 10-11th 1907	760
Wei Hai Wei	Jun 14th 1907	1,300
Wei Hai Wei	Jul 12th 1907	510
Hakadau	Aug 2nd 1907	1,080
Nagasaki	Sep 3-4th 1907	1,080
Hong Kong	Oct 16th 1907	1,206 Footnotes