Logbook kept by Captain Richard Burridge while in command of the frigates HMS PRESIDENT (1829) and HMS AMPHITRITE (1816), 1853-1856. The first part covers the commissioning and voyage to Valparaiso of the PRESIDENT to be flagship of Rear-Admiral David Price on the Pacific Station, between 6 August 1853 and 6 March 1854. In addition to the log entries, there are lists of water stowage and expenditure, sails and spars, stores, ammunition, and an extract from the quarter bill. The later part of the volume covers the voyage of the AMPHITRITE from San Francisco to Valparaiso and the Falkland Islands, bound for Portsmouth to be paid off, between 20 December 1855 and 5 April 1856.

Administrative / biographical background
Burridge was born at Harwich about 1797. He was in command of the frigate HMS PRESIDENT (1829) on the Pacific Station during the Crimean War. The PRESIDENT took part in the unsuccessful Anglo-French siege of the Russian naval base at Petropavlovsk in August and September 1855. Burridge was then in command of the frigate HMS AMPHITRITE (1816). He was given the rank of retired rear-admiral in 1864 and died at Clapham in Surrey in 1871. His service record can be found under the references ADM 196/1/354 and ADM 196/36/431 at The National Archives.