Friday, July 31, 2026

Journal of Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Kemble, Sunday June 20, 1773

Wind W. B. S. Small breeze and thick Fog, at 2 P. M. made sail having caught thirty odd Codd fish, set Steering sails on all sides below and aloft, driver, water sail, &c. Very thick fog in T. G. Steering sails. Set T. G. Steering sails, at Meridian almost calm, have a cast of the lead, no Ground with 200 fathom line. Distance 93. Lat. 44.54. Long. 45.5.

SOURCE: New York Historical Society, Publisher, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1883: The Kemble Papers, Vol. 1 1773-1789, p. 4

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