Last October, we wrote about how researchers are using eighteenth century Royal Navy ship logs to study climate change.  (See Logbooks may yield climate bounty.)  Now, through the wonder of the internet, many of these log books are on-line.  The logs of over 100 ships are accessible, including  the Beagle, the  Endeavour, the Resolution, the Pandora, the Bounty, the Royalist, the Terror and the Victory among other notable ships.

The website hosting the logs is the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), which is the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Designated Data Centre for the Atmospheric Sciences.  Thanks to Alaric Bond for the reference.

UK COLONIAL REGISTERS AND ROYAL NAVY LOGBOOKS: making the past available for the future