Overview

• The leather-bound log was brought to Stephen’s House in Finchley by a mother and son, who found it after the woman’s partner died.
• Expert Fuchsia Voremberg identified the book as the Triton’s log from the late 18th century, linked to the East India Company.
• Entries from 1793 detail shipboard discipline involving a sailor named Samuel Adams and record a burial at sea.
• The volume ends with delicate coastal views identified as Prince of Wales Island, now Penang in Malaysia, including Fort Cornwallis.
• The guest reacted with visible shock to the valuation and said her late partner would have wanted the book placed where people could see it.