Introduction
(Splash page image: "'Clipper ship Clarence 1250 Tons', hand-coloured lithograph (n.d.); T.G. Dutton, artist; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Ms. Coll 832 at the University of Pennsylvania comprises a ship's log kept by Joseph Watson, master of the Clarence, in 1864-65, and a few other items from Watson's long career at sea (including a painting of another command, the Prince of Wales). The log, which chronicles a voyage from England to India, then Guiana and home, provides a fascinating glimpse of travel - and peril - in the heyday of Britain's global empire. In the telling, it offers vantages on military history, labor and economic history, the history of health and medicine, and environmental history.
Mapping the Clarence
Follow the ship on its travels, via a torque map made using CartoDB (thanks to Hannah Feldman for making the original spreadsheet):
Story Map: An Overview of the Voyage
Here is a preview of the destinations, passengers and significant events in the 1864-65 journey of the Clarence. These - and other voyages of the ship - will be explored in greater detail within the site.This page has paths:
- Sailing the British Empire: The Voyages of the Clarence, 1858-73 STSC 077, Fall 2015 First Year Seminar, University of Pennsylvania
Contents of this path:
- The Crew / Acknowledgments
- The Provenance of Watson's Log
- Lloyd's Register: Decoding the Clarence
- The Owner
- The Master Builder: William Pile
- Joseph Watson's Biography
- Watson Lineage
- Green's Vessels
- An Illustrious Uncle
- A Mate's Progress
- The British in India
- 18th Hussars
- 18th Hussars Background
- The Hussars Reborn: 1858-1864
- 310 Tickets to India, Please: The 18th Hussars Aboard the Clarence
- After Landing