Extract from a diary of the second mate on a Spanish voyage to explore the northern coast of California
Description:
Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, second mate of the frigate la Princesa, one of two ships (the other, la Favorita)on a voyage headed by Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco in 1779. La Princesa was commanded by Juan Francis de...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio., Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la, 1743-1794., Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan., Favorita (frigate), and Princesa (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, and History
Account, by Fray Juan Antonio Garciá Riobó, of Ignacio Arteaga's expedition to continue Cuadra's discoveries of 1775. Arteaga left San Blas in 1779, explored Bucareli Sound, the Northwest Coast to Mt. St. Elias, returned by way of Cape Mendocino and...
Description:
Fray Juan Riobó was chaplain of the frigates la Princesa and la Favorita on a voyage under the command of Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Passage, Mendocino, Cape (Calif.), San Blas (Mexico), San Francisco (Calif.), and California.
Subject (Name):
Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio. and Riobo, Juan.
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, History, Discovery and exploration, and Indians of North America
Manuscript on paper of a fair copy of the ship's journal kept by the first mate of the pink Batchelor from 2 November 1669, off the Cape Verde Islands, to 4 April 1670, off the coast of Patagonia. The daily entries contain details of the Batchelor's v...
Description:
This copy, which is annotated by the Earl of Sandwich, may have been made for the Royal Navy's investigation of the incident in early 1671, when the Sweepstakes was still supposed lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, and South Atlantic Ocean
Subject (Name):
Narbrough, John, Sir, 1640-1688., Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672., Batchelor (Warship), Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Great Britain. Royal Navy
Subject (Topic):
History, Seafaring life, Ships, History, Naval, and Discovery and exploration
