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An account of the shipwreck 'Johanna'


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 37

Held at: Royal Society

Title: An account of the shipwreck 'Johanna'

Date(s): 1682

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Unknown

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CONTENT

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An account of the shipwreck of the 'Johanna', commanded by Captain Robert Brown near the Cape of Good Hope on 29 May 1682, and of the subsequent fate of the crew.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, decayed binding, size 7 x 4.5 inches, 48 ff

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Shipwrecks | Seaborne disasters | Accidents | Disasters
Manmade disasters

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Cape of Good Hope | Province of the Western Cape | South Africa | Southern Africa