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For February's item of the month I have chosen JOD/133 a logbook written by T.F. Miller, the gunner on the whaling ship 'Erik' which records a voyage undertaken in 1876 from Dundee to the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland.

"At sea if you were visited by other sailors and the ship wasn't in tip top condition you are going to get talked about. It has to be perfect, and the same standards are expected here"