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A woman was moved to learn her late partner’s 18th-century ship logbook, linked to the HMS Triton, could be worth £2,000.
A BBC Antiques Roadshow guest was deeply moved after learning a leather-bound 18th-century logbook from her late partner’s attic could be worth about £2,000.
The journal, linked to the HMS Triton of the East India Company, detailed daily ship life, weather, and incidents including crew misconduct and a sailor’s suicide.
It featured hand-drawn coastal sketches of Prince of Wales Island—now Penang, Malaysia—showing Fort Cornwallis.
Expert Fuchsia Voremberg praised the skill needed to write such entries at sea with quill pens.
The woman, stunned by the revelation, shared her partner’s wish to preserve the book for public viewing, a sentiment the expert endorsed.
The episode aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Una mujer se conmovió al enterarse de que el diario de navegación de su difunto compañero del siglo XVIII, vinculado al HMS Triton, podría valer £ 2,000.