Greenvile Collins' Journal

Captain Greenvile Collins was one of the greatest navigators of the Restoration period, becoming hydrographer to King Charles II and later producing Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, the first modern and comprehensive charts of British waters. (The picture below is an example of one of the plates in Collins' work). However, one of his voyages is almost completely unknown, being omitted (for example) from the account of Collins's life in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. This was his voyage to the Mediterranean in 1680 as master of the Fourth Rate frigate Leopard, a voyage of some political significance as she was carrying King Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of Grafton. Some years ago I wrote an article detailing this voyage, drawing upon Collins' own journal, but for various reasons, this was never published. I'm happy to make it available to researchers, and the article can be accessed via this link.