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F. Martin Leake: Two folio Logbooks: 1- Log of HMS Agincourt: Rear Admiral W. H. Whyte; Captain D. King; kept by F. Martin Leake; 1884-1885. Hand written and coloured title page Plus 165 pages, with four entries to each page; Plus: 37 tipped-in, Charts/Maps, mainly of Ireland, Gibraltar & Spain and mostly coloured; Plus: 6 tipped-in water colours of ships, including a full page one of: ( The Vasco De Gama) off Lisbon, Jan. 1886; Plus: 4 drawings. The entries covered: Ireland (Dublin to , Cork, and return); Plymouth; Gibraltar; Madeira; Milford; Belfast; Portland; Berehaven; Kirkwall; Lisbon; Spain; etc. 2- Logs of: HMS Agincourt (continued); HMS Tamar & HMS SAPPHIR (all three in one volume). a- Title-page: (Bearing the Rear, Admiral ACF Heneage; Captain: Rt. Ho. Lord Charles Scott; kept by F. Martin Leake From Feb. 1886). Title page, plus 32 pages, with four entries to each; Plus: 8 tipped-in Charts; Plus: 5 tipped-in drawings. The entries covered: Lisbon to Lagos, Bay; Gibraltar; Plymouth; Devenport; b- Log of HMS TAMAR. Commanded by captain John B Warren; from Plymouth to Hong Kong, from 12 May 1886 to 24 July 1886; Kept by F. Martin Leake. Title page, plus 33 pages, with four entries to each; Plus: 2, tipped-in Charts; Plus: 5 tipped-in drawings. The entries covered: Madeira; St. Vincent to Simons; Mauritius; Singapore; Hong Kong; c- Log of HMS Sapphire. Title page Blank, c 125 pages, with four entries to each; Plus: 12 tipped-in Charts;, Plus: 14 tipped-in drawings. The entries covered: Hong Kong to Nagasaki; Vladivostok; Wrangel Bay; Port Hamilton; Shanghai; Formosa; Swatow; Foochow; Hakodate; Yokohama; etc. The two volumes are bound in the original half leather; covers rubbed and, inner hinges cracked; few pages loose and some browning/damp staining in the second volume. NOTE: HMS Agincourt was a Minotaur-class armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. She spent most of her career as the flagship of the, Channel Squadron's second-in-command. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, she was one of the ironclads sent to Constantinople to forestall a Russian occupation of the Ottoman capital. Agincourt participated in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Fleet Review in 1887. The ship was placed in reserve two years later and served as a training ship from 1893 to 1909. HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She, served as a supply ship from 1897 to 1941, and gave her name to the shore station HMS Tamar in Hong Kong (1897 to 1997). HMS Sapphire was an Amethyst-class corvette built for the Royal Navy at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 24 September 1874., She commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1875. She left the Australia Station in July 1879 and returned to England and was refitted and rearmed. After refit she commissioned for the China Station in 1883 until 1890.