Author: Riou, Lieutenant. (Ed. M.D. Nash).
Title: The Last Voyage of the Guardian. Lieutenant Riou, Commander 1789-1791.
Description: VRS Second Series No.20. Van Riebeeck Society Cape Town 1990 for 1989. (Note. isbn-10 0620144556 given by the publisher in the book is incorrect as this is the number given for their preceding title 'The Frontier War Journal of Major John Crealock'). Chocolate cloth boards. 243pp. illustrated 8vo. 0.7kg. No inscriptions. 4 square corners, bumped near top of spine hence VG+ in matching protected dustwrapper. excellent appearance. The voyage of HMS Guardian is unique in naval history. She sailed from Spithead in September 1789 with stores for Britain's new colony in New South Wales. Thirteen days out from the Cape of Good Hope she struck an iceberg that tore away her rudder and most of her keel. Half the ship's company took to the boats, only one of which survived the stormy 1300-mile voyage back to the Cape. A month later, through exemplary courage and seamanship and against all probabilities, the crippled Guardian herself sailed into Table Bay. The full and fascinating story of the Guardian's voyage is told here in the ship's logs and letters.

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