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Log Passage from England to Australia by the ship LA HOGUE
Log Passage from England to Australia by the ship LA HOGUE

Log Passage from England to Australia by the ship LA HOGUE

Date1877
Object number00018189
NameShip's log
MediumPaper, ink, card
DimensionsOverall: 200 x 160 x 10 mm
ClassificationsBooks and journals
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Commodore Ian Nicholson
DescriptionDiary of a passenger on board the LA HOGUE with his or her family departing for New South Wales or South Australia from Plymouth. The beginning of the diary entries is titled 'Log of passage from England to Australia by the ship 'La Hogue', Captain Wagstaff, Dr Wests'. The author, with their spouse and children, travels from Walsall on 17 August 1877 to the migrant depot at Plymouth, they set sail from Plymouth on 23 August 1877, the last entry is 19 October 1877 in the southern Indian Ocean. The entries note where the single men and single women migrants were housed, sea sickness, shipboard entertainments, the weather, the death of children.HistoryThe wooden ship LA HOGUE was 1331 tons and built in 1855 by J Laing, Sunderland, for Duncan Dunbar. In 1862/1863 LA HOGUE was sold to Devitt and Moore and continued the England - Australian route until 1886 when the vessel was sold to Thomas Hick and became a coal hulk at Madeira and broken up in 1898.SignificanceAlthough anonymous, this log is an insight into the booming decades of immigration to Australia during the last half of the 19h century. On board the LA HOGUE on this 1877 journey to Australia were families, single men and women enduring months of discomfort or worse in order to experience a new life in Australia.