Victory on the day the Battle of laialgar was iought, has-been presented to the Nelson, City Council hy Mrs .Grace Fox, twh<j obtained the copy from the British Museum fop the purpose. The log was'made by the sailing-master of ' the Victory, 1 homas Atkinson. In a.letter asking the mayor to accept the gift, Mrs I'ox states- t hat an interesting ,story .attaches to the log. Thos.. Atkinson kept in his possession 'the.' original (one presumes, of course, he pht a copy in the log-book), and it gob bunded down from father to-son for some generations. When it was thought there were no more ■ des-* eendents it was auctioned!: ' a few* years ago at • Sotheby’s, and was fought by an Englishman for - over £IOO, and presented t 0 'the: British Museum. It reached the big figure owing to the fact that an ' American was also endeavouring . to purchase
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12075, 14 October 1933, Page 12
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