Maritime fans will be bidding for a rare collection of ships’ logs and photographs when they go under the hammer at a Nantwich auction.
They will feature at a sale of antiques, fine art and collectors’ items at Peter Wilson auctioneers, on Market Street.
Specialist Chris Large said: “The logs are one man’s collection.
“What makes them so interesting is the meticulous records kept on voyages, some lasting two or three years, the most notable of which was compiled by a Herbert Edward Leadam.
“He embarked at London on the ship ‘Zealandia’ of Greenock on July 29 1859, arriving at Port Cooper, Canterbury, New Zealand on November 14, 1859.
“Then, having spent 20 years in New Zealand, he sailed on the same ship from Port Nicholson, arriving back in London at the East India Dock on March 6, 1879.”
The log charts the return voyage via Cape Horn in 1878 and ending with the ship berthing back home.
It contains watercolour and pen and ink illustrations of coastal views, among them the islands of Diego Ramirez off Chile in the Pacific and Trinidade in the southern Atlantic.
Other illustrations show tall ships encountered, as well as watercolours of a magnetic compass, course charts, and loose illustrations of compasses.
The log is estimated at £400-600.
Two log books from the barque Wychwood of Sunderland, from 1906-1908, are estimated together at £300-500.
A journal of the barque Eleanor detailing a voyage from London to Hong Kong and New York, 1869-1871, is estimated at £200-300.
A journal recording a tea clipper’s voyage from the Thames to Whampoa Reach, in 1823-24 is estimated at £300-500.
They will be sold on February 15 and 16 in the saleroom’s Victoria Gallery.
Pre-sale viewing is available on February 12, 2-4pm, February 13, 10am-7pm, and February 14, 10am-4pm.
For details contact Chris Large on 01270 623878 or [email protected]
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