Cook in Newfoundland.

Cook in Newfoundland

1765. Part 2: August to December.

Introduction

Remarks etc on board His Majesty's Schooner the Grenville, James Cook Master, between April 1765 and 31 December 1765.Part 2: August to December.

August 1765.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Thursday	1st Aug.	SW SSE	Fair weather all these twenty four hours.	At 5 AM took up the small anchor and came to sail. And sounded as usual.	Cook, in the Grenville, was surveying in the inner waters of Fortune Bay, South Newfoundland.
Friday	2nd	SSE calm NE calm	The first part moderate breezes and fair weather. The later light airs inclinable to calm.	At 5 PM anchored in 10 fathoms water in the Bay St. Keels. At 6 AM weighed and came to sail. Employed on the survey.	Cinq Islands Bay (47° 38'N, 55° 28'W)
Saturday	3rd	SW calm SW	Light breezes and fair weather the first and later parts. The middle calm.	At 7 PM anchored in 12 fathoms water in Corben Bay. At 6 AM weighed and came to sail. Employed on the survey as usual.	Corbin Bay (47° 35'N, 55° 26'W)
Sunday	4th	***	Light airs and intermixed with calm and fair weather the major part. The residue light breezes and hazy.	PM Employed sounding as usual. At midnight anchored with the small bower in Bellorum in 10 fathoms water.	Belleoram Harbour (47° 31'N, 55° 25'W)
Monday	5th	variable	Light airs and fair.	PM Employed brewing. At 7 AM weighed and came to sail.
Tuesday	6th	W	Variable weather.	At 4 PM anchored with the small bower in 5 fathoms water in St. Jacques Harbour. And moored with the small anchor.	St. Jacques Harbour (47° 30'N, 55° 25'W)
Wednesday	7th	ditto	Light breezes and fair weather.	PM Employed brewing. At 6 AM took up the small anchor. At 10 weighed and came to sail. Turning out of the harbour at noon.
Thursday	8th	WNW	(1) Light breezes and fair weather. (4) Ditto weather. (12) Hazy with rain. (4) Moderate breezes and hazy with rain. (8) Excessive hard rain. (12) Hard rain.	(4) St. Jacques Island NE by N 1 league. (8) The cutter with the Master came on board. The Red Head N 2 miles. (4) Boxy N by W 1 league. The cutter with the Master went onshore to continue the survey. Bore away, single reefed the topsails. (9) Anchored with the small bower in 4 fathoms water in Boxy Harbour and moored with the small anchor.	St. Jacques Island (47° 29'N, 55° 24'W) Red Head (47° 27'N, 55° 30'W) Boxey (47° 28'N, 55° 34'W) Boxey Harbour (47° 27'N, 55° 34'W)
Friday	9th	S variable SW	The first part fresh gales with rain. The later fair weather.	At 6 AM began to unmoor. At 8 weighed and came to sail. At noon Boxy Point NE by N 4 miles.	Boxey Point (47° 25'N, 55° 36'W)
Saturday	10th	WSW	The first and later parts fair weather. The middle fresh gales.	At 9 PM anchored in Little Bay Barrysway. AM Moored with the small anchor.	Little Bay (47° 30'N, 55° 43'W) A barrysway
Sunday	11th	W	Fair weather.	Employed on the survey as usual.
Monday	12th	WSW NW	The first and middle parts hard rain and strong gales. The later fresh gales and fair weather.	At 9 AM weighed and came to sail. At noon St. John's Island SE two miles.	St. John's Island (47° 25'N, 55° 39'W)
Tuesday	13th	WNW NW	(1) Fresh gales and clear weather. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Ditto weather. (12) Ditto weather. (1) Light airs and cloudy. (8) Light airs almost calm. (12) Ditto weather.	(1) Single reefed the topsails. (4) The island Segona N by W 3 miles. (8) Sounded no ground with 85 fathom line. Segona N by W 1 mile. (12) The middle of Brunet NW. (4) Brunet NNW. (8) Middle of Brunet N by W, Fortune S by W, Plate Island NW¼W. Sounded 105 fathoms. (12) The middle of Brunet NNW 3 or 4 miles.	Sagona Island (47° 23'N, 55° 47'W) Brunette Island (47° 17'N, 55° 55'W) Plate Islands (47° 'N, 55° 'W)

Sailing Directions	Notes
Island of Sagona The Island of Sagona, which lies N.N.E. two leagues from the East-end of Brunet, is about 3 miles and a half in circuit, of a moderate height, and bold to all round; at the S.W. end is a small creek that will admit fishing shallops; in the middle of the entrance is a sunken rock, which makes it exceeding narrow, and difficult to get in or out, except in fine weather.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Wednesday	14th	W by N	(1) Moderate and clear weather. (4) Ditto weather. (12) Moderate and fair weather. (2) Some rain. (4) Fresh gales and hard rain. (12) Strong gales and hard rain.	(5) Middle of Brunet N by W 1 mile. (6) Bore away. (8) Anchored with the small bower in a bight at the SE part of Brunet in 12 fathoms. (5) Weighed and came to sail. (7) Anchored with the small bower in 14 fathoms water in a bight at the NE part of Brunet.	Bight Anchorage 1 (47° 16'N, 55° 51'W) Anchorage 2 (47° 17'N, 55° 52'W)
Thursday	15th	S	(1) Strong gales and hard rain. (4) Something more moderate. (8) Hard gales and squally. (12) Ditto weather. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Something more moderate. (12) Ditto weather.	(8) (am) Lowered down the foreyard.

Sailing Directions

Notes

Island of Brunet

The Island of Brunet is situated nearly in the middle of the entrance into Fortune Bay; it is about 5 leagues in circuit, and of tolerable height; the East end appears, at some points of view, like islands, by reason it is very low and narrow in two places. On the N.E. side of the island is a bay, wherein is tolerable good anchorage for ships in 14 and 16 fathoms, sheltered from Southerly and Westerly winds; you must not run too far in for fear of some sunken rocks in the bottom of it, a quarter of a mile from the shore; opposite this bay on the South-side of the island, is a small cove, wherein small vessels and shallops can lay pretty secure from the weather, in 6 fathoms water; in the middle of the cove is a rock above water, and a channel on each side of it. The islands lying at the West-end of Brunet, called Little Brunets; afford indifferent shelter for shallops in blowing weather; you may approach these islands, and the island of Brunet, within a quarter of a mile all round, there being no danger, but what lies very near the shore.

Plate Islands

Plate Islands are three rocks of moderate height, lying S.W. 1 league from the West-end of Great Brunet. The southernmost and outermost of these rocks lay W. by S. half S. 11 miles from Cape Miquelon, and in a direct line between Point May and Pass Island, 17 miles from the former and 19 from the latter; S.E. a quarter of a mile from the Great Plate (which is the northernmost) is a sunken rock, whereon the sea breaks, which is the only danger about them.

Observations

There are several strong and irregular settings of the tides or currents about the Plate and Brunet Islands, which seem to have no dependency on the moon, and the course of the tides on the coast.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Friday	16th	WSW WNW W	The first and middle parts strong gales with rain. The later fresh gales and clear.	At 8 AM swayed up the fore yard. At 9 weighed and came to sail. At noon Segona Island SW distance one mile.
Saturday	17th	W	The first part hazy. The later fresh gales with hard rain.	At 7 PM anchored with the small bower in 7 fathoms water in the upper part of Harbour Britain. Made the hawser fast to the shore. At half past 5 AM came to sail. At noon turning down the harbour.	Harbour Breton (47° 29'N, 55° 48'W) Jerseyman's Harbour (47° 30'N, 55° 45'W)
Sunday	18th	ditto	The first and later parts fresh gales and fair weather. The middle calm and hard rain.	At 9 PM anchored in 16 fathoms water and made a hawser fast to the shore. At 8 AM came to sail and at noon anchored in the proper road near the ships in Harbour Britain. And moored with the small anchor.
Monday	19th	W SW	Fair weather.	Employed on the survey and brewing. Began setting the rigging up.
Tuesday	20th	W	The first part fair weather. The later hard rain.	PM Set the rigging up fore and aft. Employed on the survey.
Wednesday	21st	variable	The first part fair weather. The later thick fog with some rain.	PM Fetched 2 turns of water on board and likewise the beer. AM Employed sounding the harbour.
Thursday	22nd	ditto	Fair weather.	AM Employed wooding.
Friday	23rd	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed brewing and wooding.
Saturday	24th	WSW W	(1) Little wind and fair weather. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Ditto weather. (12) Calm. (4) Ditto. (12) Light breezes and fair weather.	(6) (am) Took up the small anchor. (9) Weighed and came to sail. (12) Turning out of the harbour.
Sunday	25th	WSW W	(1) Light airs and fair weather. (8) Ditto weather. (12) Fresh breezes and fair. (12) Moderate breezes and fair.	(4) West head of Harbour Britain N by W 1 mile. (8)The west head of Harbour Britain NNE 2 miles. (9) Half past, sounded no ground with 150 fathom (line). Sagona SW by S 1 mile. (12) Sagona S by W 2 miles. Sounded no ground with 75 fathom line. (3) Canaigre Head NW by N 2 miles, sounded 85 fathoms. (4) Ditto NE by E, sounded 48 fathoms, 2 miles offshore. (5) Ditto NE by E½E ¼ of a mile, sounded 34 fathoms. (8) Cannaigre Head SE by S 1 mile. (12) Anchored in Cannaigre Harbour in 7 fathoms water and moored with the small anchor.	Western Head (47° 27'N, 55° 49'W) Connaigre Head (47° 26'N, 55° 56'W) Connaigre Harbour (47° 30'N, 55° 51'W) *** probably Great Harbour Bight
Monday	26th	SW	The first part fair weather. The later foggy.	AM The people employed making points and gaskets. At 8 unmoored, weighed and came to sail.
Tuesday	27th	variable	Light airs and fair.	At 5 PM anchored off a stage at Cannagre, the head bore SSW. Moored with the small anchor.	Anchorage was probably in Dawson's Cove (47° 32'N, 55° 56'W)
Wednesday	28th	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed on the survey.
Thursday	29th	ditto NE	The first part little wind with rain. The later strong gales.	PM Employed as before. At 6 took up the small anchor. At 9 came to sail. At noon Bastarre Point NE by E ¾ of a mile.	Basse Terre Point (47° 28'N, 56° 08'W)
Friday	30th	ditto NW W	The first part fresh breezes and fair weather. The later little wind.	At 3 PM anchored in 6 fathoms water between Pass Island and the main. And moored with the small anchor. AM opened a cask of xxxx 190 pppp.	Pass Island Tickle (47° 36'N, 56° 12'W) A tickle is a name given on the coast of Newfoundland to a narrow difficult strait or passage.
Saturday	31st Aug.	ditto SW	The first and middle parts fair weather. The later hard rain.	PM Employed on the survey. At 8 came to sail.

September 1765.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Sunday	1st Sep.	SW W	The first part little windand hard rain. The later strong gales and clear.	At 1 PM anchored in the harbour of Grand Jervis, in the Bay Dispair in 15 fathoms water. And moored with the small anchor.	Great Jervis Harbour (47° 39'N, 56° 11'W)
Monday	2nd	W	The first part strong gales. The later some rain.	Employed on the survey.	Bay d'Espoir (47° 42'N, 56° 05'W)
Tuesday	3rd	ditto	Mostly fair weather these twenty four hours.	Employed as before.
Wednesday	4th	ditto	The first part fresh breezes with some rain. Later moderate and fair.	AM Dried sails. Employed as before.
Thursday	5th	NE WSW	Light breezes and fair weather.	Employed as before.
Friday	6th	ditto	Ditto weather the first part. The later fresh gales and hazy.	Employed as before.
Saturday	7th	S SW W	The first and later parts fresh breezes and fair weather. The middle strong gales with hard rain.	AM Dried sails. Employed as before and brewing and watering.
Sunday	8th	W	Fair weather.	PM Got all the water, etc on board. AM H**led and scrubbed the vessel's bottom.
Monday	9th	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed as before. AM Got the beer on board.
Tuesday	10th	SW SE	The first part fair weather. The later hard gales with much rain.
Wednesday	11th	NW	In the first part at small intervals calm. The residue more of hard gales and squally. The middle and later strong gales and fair weather.	At 6PM took up the small anchor. At 7 AM reefed the topsails and mainsail, weighed and came to sail. At 11 took another reef in the fore topsail. At noon running up the south shore of Hermitage Bay, about ¼ of a mile off.	Hermitage Bay (47° 'N, 56° 'W)
Thursday	12th	WNW SW	The first part strong gales and hard squalls. The later hazy with rain.	At 2 PM anchored with the small bower in 7 fathoms water in Hermitage Cove. And moored with the small anchor and hawser.	Hermitage Cove (47° 34'N, 55° 56'W)
Friday	13th	S	The first part fresh gales with hard rain. The later fair weather.	AM Employed on the survey and brewing.
Saturday	14th	SSW	The first part fair weather. The later much rain.
Sunday	15th	ditto	The first and middle parts hard rain. The later fair weather.
Monday	16th	W	Almost calm and fair these twenty four hours.	At 5 AM took up the small anchor, weighed and came to sail. At noon the Hermitage Cove SE by S 3 miles.
Tuesday	17th	ditto calm W	Light breezes and fair weather the first and later parts. The middle thick fog.	At 6 PM anchored with the small bower in a cove in the Bay Despair in Long Island. Made a hawser fast on shore. AM Began to brew.	Long Island (47° 38'N, 56° 00'W) The anchorage was probably in Harbour le Gallais on the north coast of Long Island. (47° 41'N, 55° 59'W)
Wednesday	18th	ditto	The major part fresh breezes and fair weather.	At 9 AM weighed and came to sail. At noon running up the Bay Despair and sounding etc.
Thursday	19th	ditto	The first and later parts fresh gales. The middle strong gales and rain.	At 2 PM anchored off the upper part of the Isle Bois in 9 fathoms water. And made the hawser fast on shore.	Bois Island (47° 44'N, 55° 56'W) The anchorage was probably in May Cove near the northeastern end of Bois Island. (47° 44'N, 55° 53'W)
Friday	20th	W	Fresh gales and fair weather.	Employed on the survey.
Saturday	21st	ditto	The first part ditto weather. The later strong gales with some rain.	Employed as before.
Sunday	22nd	ditto	Strong gales and hard squalls with much rain the middle part.	At 7 PM weighed and came to sail. At 9 anchored in Ship Cove in 5 fathoms water and moored with the hawser fast on shore. AM Loosed sails to dry.	Ship Cove (47° 52'N, 55° 56'W)
Monday	23rd	ditto	Fair weather.	PM Unbent the sails. PM Began to black the masts and rigging. AM Employed on the survey.
Tuesday	24th	ditto	Mostly fair, some intervals towards the later part small rain.	Completed blacking the masts and rigging. Employed on the survey. Began to brew and cut wood.
Wednesday	25th	ditto	Fair weather.	PM Complted the survey. AM Employed as before.
Thursday	26th	ditto	Fresh gales and cloudy weather with some rain.	Employed as before. Began clearing the hold and getting the water casks on shore, etc.
Friday	27th	ditto	Major part ditto weather.	Employed as before.
Saturday	28th	ditto variable	The first part fresh gales and hazy. The middle and later little wind and fair weather.	Employed as before. Sent the anchors, etc on shore.
Sunday	29th	W SE	The first part fair weather. The later strong gales with rain.	At 7 AM struck the yards and topmasts. Draught of water foreward 5 feet 8 inches; aft 9 feet 3 inches. At 9 hauled on shore. Employed cleaning the bottom on the larboard side and boostoped with tallon. The carpenters employed about the fore foot which was damaged when run on shore in Long Harbour.	The forefoot is a timber curving upwards from the leading end of the keel to the lower end of the stem and forming part of both. boostoped
Monday	30th Sep.	ESE NW	The first part strong gales with rain. The later fresh gales and fair weather.	At ½ past 9 PM being about the top of the tide, attempted to heave off but could not. AM Detained on account of not floating.

October 1765.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Tuesday	1st Oct.	ditto W	Fair weather.	PM At low water the carpenters employed and finished sesuring the fore foot. At 11 hoved off. At 9 AM hauled ashore again and heeled the larboard side out and scrubbed and bestoped with tallow. Blacked the bends.	sesuring bestoped
Wednesday	2nd	ditto	Ditto weather.	At 10 PM hove off and moored as before. AM Got up yards and topmasts. Got some wood on board.
Thursday	3rd	ditto	Ditto weather.	PM Employed getting wood on board. Got the anchors on board. AM Employed cutting wood, brewing and setting the rigging up.
Friday	4th	SW	The major part fair weather.	Employed as before.
Saturday	5th	calm SW	The first part fresh gales and hazy with rain. The later fair weather.	Employed as before and taking wood on board.
Sunday	6th	variable SW	The first part fair weather. The middle and later hard rain.	Employed as before.
Monday	7th	ditto	The first part much rain. The later fair weather.	Employed as before. AM Scraped the masts.
Tuesday	8th	W	Moderate breezes and cloudy weather.	PM Scraped the sides and pay them with varnish of pine. AM Bent the sails. Some of the people employed cutting wood.
Wednesday	9th	ditto	Fresh breezes and cloudy weather.	PM Employed getting wood on board and beer also. At 8 AM weighed and came to sail.
Thursday	10th	WSW	The first part moderate breezes and fair. The later fresh breezes and hard rain	At 7 PM anchored in 9 fathoms water in a cove on the Isle of Bois. At 7 AM weighed and came to sail. At noon, the west end of the Isle of Bois ¼ of a mile.
Friday	11th	ditto	The first part fresh gales and hard rain. The middle and later hard gales, with excessive hard squalls and rain.	At 6 PM anchored in the mouth of the north entrance of Great Jervis Harbour in 10 fathoms water. And veered to half a cable.
Saturday	12th	W by N	The first part strong gales and hard squalls. The later more moderate.	At 8 PM weighed and came to sail. At noon Pass Island SW by W 3 miles.
Sunday	13th	W by N WNW NW	(1) Fresh gales and fair weather. (4) Ditto weather. (12) Moderate breezes with a large swell from westward. (12) Ditto weather.	(4) Pass Island NW ¼ of a mile. Sent the boat on shore. (8) Ditto island NNW ½ a mile. (3) Cape Miquelon SW½W distance 3 leagues. (9) Ditto cape W by S 3 leagues. Sounded 37 fathoms. (12) Ditto cape WNW about 3 miles.	Pass Island (47° 30'N, 56° 12'W) Cap du Nid a l'Aigle (Miquelon) (47° 52'N, 55° 56'W)
Monday	14th	NW N ENE E by N E E by S ESE	(1) Light airs and cloudy weather. (8) Light breezes and cloudy weather. (1) Fresh breezes and cloudy. (4) Hard squalls. (8) Fresh gales with hard rain and a large sea from the SE. (12) Fresh gales and hazy.	(1) In a line between Cape Miquelon and Plate Island and nearest to the island. Sounded 70 fathoms fine black sand and broken shells. (4) Miquelon Rocks SW distance 4 or 5 miles. (8)Sounded 41 fathoms. (10) St. Peters SSW½W and Green Island SE. Sounded 53 fathoms. (12) In a line between St. Peters and Green Island and nearest the island. Sounded 72 fathoms. (1) Columbus NW by W distance 2 leagues. (4) Handed the (handed the) foretopsails. (7) Set foretopsails. (11) Bent the main staysail and set it.	Miquelon Rocks off Pointe aux Soldats (47° 03'N, 56° 15'W) St. Pierre (46° 47'N, 56° 12'W) Grand Colombier (46° 49'N, 56° 10'W)
Tuesday	15th	ESE E NE by E	(1) Strong gales and squally. (4) Ditto weather. (6) Strong gales and squally. (12) Ditto weather. (2) Hard gales. (8) Strong gales and squally. (12) Fresh gales and clear weather.	(1) Tacked. Handed the foresail. (6)Wore and stood to the southward. Gallantry Head on the Island St. Peters N½W 4 leagues. (12) Hauled down the main and forestaysails. (2) Took another reef in the mainsail and wore. (8) St. Peters N by E½E, distance 5 leagues. (12) St. Peters NE by E 4 or 5 leagues.	Tete de Galantry (46° 46'N, 56° 09'W)
Wednesday	16th	NE NE by N NNE ESE N	(1) Fresh gales and clear weather. (4) Ditto weather. (7) Ditto and cloudy. (11) Hard gales and excessive hard squalls. (4) Ditto weather. (12) Strong gales and hard squalls.	(2) ½ past wore. Let the reef out of the mainsail and set the staysails. (4) Gallantry Head on the Island St. Peters NE by E 4 leagues. (7) Ditto head NNE½E, distance 4 leagues. (9) ½ past reefed the mainsail. (11) Hauled down the mainstaysail. (1) ½ past hauled up the foresail and brought to. (9) ½ past made sail. Set the foresail.
Thursday	17th	NNE N by E N E by S	(1) Hard gales with excessive hard squalls. (4) Ditto weather. (7) More moderate. (8) Excessive hard squalls. (12) Ditto weather. (4) Excessive hard squalls. (9) Hard gales and squally. (12) Ditto weather.	(2) ½ past hauled up the foresail and brought to. (7) Set the foresail and mainstaysail. (8) Hauled down the mainstaysail. (4)Hauled up the foresail and lay to. (8) Set mainstaysail and hauled down the mainsail. (9) Reefed the foresail.
Friday	18th	E E by S N by E	(1-4) Very hard gales and squally. (8) Ditto weather. (12) Hard gales and squally with showers of rain. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Ditto weather. (11) More moderate. (12) Fresh gales and squally.	(1-4) Balance reef. (5-7) Took the balance reef in the mainsail and set it. (10) Sounded 42 fathoms. Scalloped shells. (11) Set reefed foresail and loosed the balance reef out of the mainsail.
Saturday	19th	N by E NNE NW NW by W	(1) Fresh gales and cloudy weather. (4) Ditto weather. (6) Ditto weather. (8) Moderate and cloudy. (12) Little wind and cloudy weather. (4) Light breezes and cloudy. (12) Fresh breezes and fair weather.	(3) Set the foretopsail and staysails. (6) Let the second reef out of the mainsail. (10) Set maintopsail. (4) Let the 1st reef out of the maintopsail and 2 reef out of the foretopsail and set the jib. (8) Loosed the reefs out of the mainsail and foretopsail. (12) Cape Pine N by E¼E 5 or 6 leagues. Latitude observed 46º 23' N.
Sunday	20th	W by N	(1) Fresh breezes and fair weather. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Light breezes and hazy. (12) Light airs and cloudy. (8) Fresh gales and hazy with rain and a large sea from the NE. (12) Fresh gales and hazy.	(4) Cape Race E by N½N, distance 3 leagues. (8) Cape Race NW distance one mile and a half. (12) Offshore 1½ mile. (7) Cape Broil W by N 1½ mile. (12) Anchored in the Narrows of St. John's Harbour.	Capr Broil The Narrows
Monday	21st	WSW	Hard gales and squally.	PM Employed worping up the Narrows. At 11 AM came to sail.
Tuesday	22nd	W	The first part excessive hard gales. Later little wind.	At 1 PM anchored towards the upper part of the Harbour. At 5 lowered the lower yards. AM Moored with the small anchor and hawser. Swayed up the lower yards, etc. Dried sails.
Wednesday	23rd	variable	Light airs inclinable to calm.	PM Began to brew.
Thursday	24th	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed brewing and overhauling part of the rigging.
Friday	25th	NE	The first part fair weather. The later much rain.	Employed as before. PM Dry sails.
Saturday	26th	variable	The major part light airs and small rain.	Employed as before.
Sunday	27th	ditto NW	The first part light breezes with rain. Later fair weather.	At 3 AM sailed hence His Majesty's Ship Lark.
Monday	28th	NE	The first part fair weather. The later fresh gales.	Employed brewing.
Tuesday	29th	ENE	Fresh gales with much rain	Employed as before.
Wednesday	30th	NE	Ditto weather.
Thursday	31st Oct.	variable	The major part fair weather.	Got all the beer and water on board.

November 1765.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Friday	1st Nov.	ditto SW	The first part little wind. The later fresh breezes and fair.	AM Employed setting the topmast rigging up.
Saturday	2nd	SSW	Fresh breezes and hazy weather.
Sunday	3rd	ditto	The first part fresh breezes and fair. The middle and later hard gales with excessive hard rain.	PM Payed the sides with varnish of pine. AM Completed all the water again and employed brewing of beer.
Monday	4th	SSW WSW SSW	The first part fresh gales and hard rain. Later fair weather.	At 6 AM began to unmoor. At 9 weighed and came to sail. At noon anchored again, not being able to get through the Narrows. Draught of water foreward 8 feet; aft 9 feet 6½ inches.
Tuesday	5th	SSW SW W by S	The first part fresh breezes with some rain. The later moderate breezes and cloudy.	At 7 AM weighed and came to sail, as did Commodore Palliser with the rest of the squadron. At noon the entrance of St. John's Harbour WNW 2 or 3 leagues.	The Grenville set off on its return to Britain in company with other Britsih ships.
Wednesday	6th Nov.		(1) Moderate and cloudy weather. (4) Ditto weather. (6) Light airs and hazy with rain. (8) Fresh breezes and hazy. (12) Ditto weather. (2) Fresh breezes and squally. (8) More moderate. (12) Fresh gales and cloudy.	(4)St. John's Harbour W by N¾N 4 leagues. (2) Double reefed the topsail. Handed main topsail and single reefed the mainsail. (8) Set the main topsail.	The Grenville lost sight of land.

From Thursday 07 November to Wednesday 27 November the Grenville was on the open sea crossing the Atlantic out of sight of land. The log records weather details and sailing operations. On Thursday 28 November England came into sight.

November 1765 (continued).

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Thursday	28th Nov.	W by N WNW NW WNW W by N	(1) Fresh breezes and sometimes hard showers of rain. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Ditto weather. (9) More moderate and cloudy. (12) Ditto weather. (4) Ditto weather. (8) Ditto weather. (12) Ditto weather.	(4) ½ past sounded 50 fathoms, white sand and some broken shell. (12) Sounded 53 fathoms, coarse brown sand and broken shells. (7) Set studding sails. (11) Unstowed the anchors and bent the cables. (12) Saw the land bearing N by E. Scilly N34º W 8 leagues. Latitude 49º 40'N.	The Grenville had crossed the Atlantic once more and reached Britain. The Grenville was about south of Land's End so the land seen would have been part of the Lizard Peninsula, in the vicinity of Helston.
Friday	29th	W WSW	(1) Moderate breezes and cloudy weather. (4) Ditto weather. (6) Showery. (8) Ditto. (11) Moderate and clear weather. (4) Ditto weather. (12) Ditto weather.	(4) The Start NNW½W, distance 7 leagues. (4) Peverell Point NE, distance 3 leagues. (7) Needle Rock NNE 4 leagues. (10) Dunnose NE by E. Sounded 20 fathoms, large stones. (12) Dunnose NE by N, distance 2 leagues.	Peverell Point
Saturday	30th Nov.	WNW W NNE	(1) Light breezes and clear weather. (4) Light airs. (8) Light breezes and clear weather. (4) Moderate breezes and fair. (8) Fresh gales and cloudy.	(4) Dunnose NE½E, distance 7 or 8 miles. (8) Dunnose NE by E, 9 or 10 miles. (10) Tacked and sounded 23 fathoms, stony bottom. Dunnose then NNE 4 leagues. (12) Tacked. Dunnose N by W 2 or 3 leagues. (2) Anchored with the small bower in 22 fathoms water. Dunnose N by W, 2 or 3 leagues. (6) Weighed and came to sail in first reef of the mainsail and main and foretopsail. (8) Culver Cliffs N by W 4 or 5 miles. (10) Anchored at Spithead. Found here the Guernsey and the Aquilon.	Culver Cliffs. Spithead. HMS Aquilon was a 6th rate of 28 guns and 600 tons. It had been built at Rotherhithe in 1758.

December 1765.

At the beginning of December 1765, the schooner Grenville was rounding the Isle of Wight as it approached Portsmaouth where Cooke needed to report in to Governor Hugh Palliser. He then continued round to the River Thames where, after a short stopover at Woolwich, Cook moored the ship at Deptford Dockyard on the south bank of the river, downstream from the centre of London. Having safely brought the Grenville back to Britain, Cook quickly returned to his family in Mile End. He began drawing up the charts, the sailing directions and other reports from his time surveying the Burin Peninsula, Fortune Bay and Bay d'Espoir on Newfoundland's south coast during the summer of 1765. The following remarks from the Grenville's log book would have probably been recorded by William Parker, the Master's mate. No repairs or modifications were made through December so the remarks are virtually all concerned with the weather.

Week Days	Month Day	Winds	Weather	Remarks	Notes
Sunday	1st Dec.	ESE	The first part fresh gales and cloudy. The later strong gales.	AM Veered to a whole cable.
Monday	2nd	ditto	The first part strong gales. The later more moderate.	At 7 AM weighed and came to sail. At 9 anchored in Portsmouth Harbour and moored with the small anchor and hawser.	Portsmouth Harbour
Tuesday	3rd	E SE	The first part stromg gales and cloudy. The later moderate and clear.	PM Employed returning empty casks.
Wednesday	4th	ESE	The first part moderate and clear weather. The later fresh gales.	Employed getting water on board.
Thursday	5th	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed getting boats on board.
Friday	6th	ESE SE by S	The first part little wind and cloudy. The later fresh gales.	AM Came into the harbour His Majesty's Ship Guernsey.	HMS Guernsey
Saturday	7th	E S W	The first and later parts fair weather. The middle fresh wind with much rain.	At 7 AM unmoored.
Sunday	8th	W	Fresh breezes and fair weather.	At ½ past 9 AM weighed and came to sail. At noon Dunnose W by N 3 leagues.	Dunnose
Monday	9th	WNW	Fresh gales and cloudy weather.	At 4 PM Beachy Head E by N 4 or 5 leagues. At 10 Dungeness Lights N by E 4 miles. At 12 South Foreland lights NE by E. Brought to with her head to the northward. At 4 AM made sail and at 8 anchored in the Downs. Sent the boat ashore for a pilot. At 10 the pilot came on board. Weighed and came to sail. At noon anchored off the North Foreland.	Beachy Head Dungeness South Foreland the Downs North Foreland
Tuesday	10th	ditto SW	The first part strong gales and cloudy. The middle moderate. The later squally.	At 7 PM weighed and came to sail. At 11 anchored off Margate. At 6 AM weighed. At noon Nore Light vessel WSW one mile.	Margate Nore Light
Wednesday	11th	NW by W	Strong gales and squally.	At 3 PM anchored in Sea Reach. At 9 AM weighed and came to sail.	Sea Reach
Thursday	12th	WNW NW	The first part strong gales. The middle and later moderate and clear.	At 1 PM anchored in Gravesend Reach. At 8 weighed. At 11 anchored in Halfway Reach. At 7 AM weighed. At ½ past 10 made fast to a buoy off Woolwich Yard.	Gravesend Reach Halfway Reach Woolwich Yard
Friday	13th	WNW	The first and later parts moderate and cloudy.	Loosed sails to dry.
Saturday	14th	ditto calm	The first part light airs. The middle and later calm with a thick fog.	AM Returned all the ordnance stores.
Sunday	15th	calm	Calm and foggy weather.
Monday	16th	WSW	The first and middle parts calm. The later light breezes and foggy.	At 11 PM cast off the buoy.
Tuesday	17th	ditto	Ditto weather.	At 3 PM made fast along side of ship off Deptford yard.	Deptford yard
Wednesday	18th	ditto	The first part ditto weather. The middle and later moderate and clear.	Loosed sails, unbent them and sent them ashore.
Thursday	19th	SW W	The first part fair weather. The later hard gales.	Lost the boat by being cut from the moorings. Employed unreeving the running rigging.
Friday	20th	ditto	Ditto weather.	Employed as before.
Saturday	21st	SW	The first part cloudy. The middle and later much rain.	Employed getting down the yards and topmasts.
Sunday	22nd	NNE	The first part strong gales. The later more moderate.	PM Cast off from alongside the ship. And took in the Catherine Yatch's moorings.	Catherine Yacht's moorings
Monday	23rd	NNW WSW	Moderate and foggy.	AM Returned all the empty casks and received beer on board.
Tuesday	24th	SW	Light breezes and clear.	Tarred the sides.
Wednesday	25th	W	The first part little wind and foggy. The middle and later clear weather.		Christmas Day
Thursday	26th	WSW NW	The first part strong gales with small rain. The middle and later clear weather.	Sent the small boat to look for the cutter.	Events of the 19th (see above)
Friday	27th	N	Ditto weather.	The boat returned without success.
Saturday	28th	NE	The first and middle parts light airs. The later strong gales.
Sunday	29th	ENE	Ditto weather.
Monday	30th	E	The major part fresh gales and cloudy.	Mustered by the Clerk of the Cheque.
Tuesday	31st Dec.	ditto	The first part strong gales. The middle and later light breezes and cloudy.

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