Annexe A : Conrad at sea

Ship Type Owner Built Last voyage Conrad’s voyage(s) Captain Conrad’s status Newspaper report

Various



        Marseilles harbour   Pilot
Mont-Blanc 3-masted barque
400 tons
C. Delestang & son
[French]
1852  
11 December 1874
Marseilles ® St Pierre, Martinique
® Marseilles
23 May 1875		   Passenger  
25 June 1875
Marseilles ® St Pierre Martinique ® Le Havre
23 December 1875		   Apprentice seaman
Saint-Antoine 3-masted barque C. Delestang & son
[French]
    8 July 1876
Marseilles ® St Pierre ® Cartagena (Colombia) ® Puerto Cabello & La Guayra (Venezuela) ® St Thomas ® Haiti ® Marseilles
15 February 1877		   Steward  
Mavis Steamer
764 tons
[British]		     April 1878
Marseilles ® Malta ® Constantinople ® Lowestoft
18 June 1878		 William Munnings Ordinary seaman
The Skimmer of the Sea Schooner       11 July 1878
Lowestoft « Newcastle (x 3)
23 September 1878		   Ordinary seaman
Duke of Sutherland Full-rigged clipper
1047 tons		     Sunk at Timaru anchorage (eastern shore of New Zealand’s south island) 12 October 1878
London ® Sydney
?
5 July 1879
Sydney ® London
19 October 1879		   Ordinary seaman
[2nd mate = H. J. Bastard, from Halifax]
Europa Iron steamer
676 tons		   1877
Glasgow by A. & J. Inglis		   12 December 1879
London ® Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Patras, Messina, Palermo ® London
30 January 1880		 Munro Ordinary seaman
Loch Etive Full-rigged clipper
1288 tons		       24 August 1880
London ® Sydney ® London
24 April 1881		 William Stuart
[From Peterhead, born 1832. Master of the Tweed, 1863-1877, built in Bombay 1854]		 Third mate
[Chief mate = William Purdu from Glasgow]
Palestine Wooden barque
427 tons		 John Wilson [South Hackney] 1857 [Suther-land] = Conrad’s voyage (burnt in Bangka Strait) (See ‘Youth’) 21 September 1881
London ® Falmouth
24 December 1881
17 September 1882
Falmouth ® Bangka Strait
14 March 1883
safe boat to Muntok (Bangka Island)
15 March 1883		 Elijah Beard Second mate
Sissie         22 March 1883
Muntok ® Singapore
2 April 1883. Court of Enquiry on the Palestine 		  Passenger
Leon XIII Steamer


[Spanish]		     1 May 1883
Singapore ® Port Said ® Liverpool
June 1883		 Lopez Passenger Singapore Free Press
Riversdale Full-rigged sailing ship
1490 tons		       10 September 1883
London ® Cape of Good Hope ® Madras
8 April 1884
Dismissed 17 April.		 Lawrence McDonald
(Accused of alcoholism by Conrad
¬¾¾¾)		 Second mate
Narcissus Full-rigged iron sailing ship
1300 tons		       3 June 1884
Bombay ® Dunkirk
16 October 1884		   Second mate
Tilkhurst Full-rigged iron sailing clipper
1527 tons		       27 April 1885
Hull ® Cardiff ® Singapore ®
22 September 1885
19 October 1885
Calcutta ® Dundee
17 June 1886		 Edwin John Blake Second mate Straits Time
[23 Sept. 1885]
11 November 1886. Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski gets his Master’s Certificate
Falconhurst Iron sailing ship
2000 tons		       28 December 1886
London ® Cardiff
2 January 1887		   Second mate  
Highland-Forest Iron barque
1040 tons		 Crane, Colvil & Co
Glasgow
[Leith]		   18 February 1887
Amsterdam ® Semarang
20 June 1887		 John McWhir Chief mate
Celestial Steamer


[British]		     2 July 1887
Semarang ® Singapore (hospital)
6 July 1887		 Follett Passenger Straits Time
[13 July 1887]
Vidar Iron steamer
204 tons
“Arab in Singapore”		     22 August 1887
Singapore ® Karimata Strait ® Banjarmasin ® Pulau Laut ® Donggala ® Tanjungredeb ® Tanjungselor (& return): x4
4 January 1888		 James Craig
[1846-1929]		 Chief mate Singapore Free Press
Melita         9 January 1888
Singapore ® Bangkok
13 January 1888		   Passenger
Otago Iron sailing barque
345 tons

(Adelaide)		     9 February 1888
Bangkok ® S’pore ® Sunda Strait ® Sydney
7 May 1888
Sydney « Melbourne
7 August 1888
Sydney ® Torres Strait ® Mauritius
30 September 1888
23 November 1888
Port-Louis ® Melbourne
5 January 1889
4 February 1889
Melbourne ® Minlacowie
22 February 1889
21 March 1889
Minlacowie® Port Adelaide
26 March 1889		 Joseph Conrad Master

[Chief mate = Charles Born]		 Sydney Morning Herald
[8 May 1888]
















South Australian Register
[27 March 1889]
Nürnberg Steamer

(German)		     3 April 1889
Adelaide ® Suez Canal ® Southampton
14 May 1889		   Passenger
Ville de Maceio Steamer Cie française des Chargeurs Réunis     10 May 1890
Bordeaux ® Tenerife ® Dakar ® Conakry ® Freetown ® Grand Bassam ® Cotonou ® Libreville ® Loango ® Banana (mouth of the Congo river) ® Boma
12 June 1890		   Passenger Mouvement Géo-graphique
[4 May 1890]
? Steamer       13 June 1890
Boma ® Matadi
13 June 1890		   Passenger
[None: trekking]         28 June 1890
Matadi ® Manyanga
8 July 1890
25 July 1890
Manyanga ® Kinshasa
2 August 1890		    
Roi des Belges 2-storey iron stern-wheel steamer Société du Haut-Congo
(Belgian)		    
4 August 1890
Kinshasa ® Stanley Falls
1 September 1890

Ludvig Koch [Dane] Observer
6 September 1890
Stanley Falls ® Bangala
15 September 1890
16 September 1890
Bangala ® Kinshasa
24 September 1890		 Joseph Conrad [Koch fell ill] Master Mouvement Géo-graphique
[2 Nov. 1890]
[28 Dec. 1890]
London Mercury
[None: trekking]         19 October 1890
Kinshasa ® Matadi
4 December 1890		    
Adolph Wœrman
or
Lualaba		 Steamer [German]



[British]		     8/14 December 90
Boma ® Brussels ® London
1 February 1891		   Passenger
Nellie Cruising yawl G. F. W. Hope [Br.]     Thames river   Passenger
Torrens Full-rigged clipper
1334 tons		   1875   November 1891
London « Adelaide (x 2)
July 1893		   First mate
Adowa Steamship
2097 tons
(English)		     26 November 1893
London ® Rouen
4 December 1893
(moored)
~ mid-January 1894
Rouen ® London
18 January 1894		   Second mate