Record

RefNoMS/516/6/9
LevelItem
TitleLetter from James Beazley, the British Ship Owners Company, Liverpool (Limited) to [George James] Symons, [Chair of the Royal Society Krakatoa Committee]
Date14 February 1884
DescriptionLetter from James Beazley, shipowner, offering an extract from the ship log of the "British Sceptre", which arrived to Calcutta on 8 January, in response to an advertisement in The Times. Observes passing through immense fileds of lava and pumice stone.

Specific coordinates mentioned:

Lat 12.07
Long 90.27

Lat 9.29
Long 90.19
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6485Symons; George James (1838 - 1900)1838 - 1900
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