On the Carnatic to India

Click on the above image to see an enlarged image of the accommodation plan of the ship Carnatic which sailed from England to India in 1843.

Why is this document at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives?

We already had a less well annotated version of this 1843 plan ref.LL17/295, but a researcher using ref. LL17/278 , the household accounts of John Hatfield Brooks of Flitwick 1888 - 1893 found this plan of the accommodations of the ship Carnatic filed under 1888, with more annotations than LL17/295 and a note that it sailed from Spithead Feb 7th 1843 and arrived at Calcutta 25th July same year.

On the plan ref.LL17/295 John Thomas Brooks has made a note:  'By this ship dearest Johnnie [John Hatfield Brooks] made his first voyage to India.' Only a few of the cabins have names written in, indicating it is an earlier plan than that found in LL17/278. J T Brooks mentions trying to see Johnnie sale on the Carnatic and Johnnie's eventual departure in his diary [Bedfordshire Historical Record Society Volume 66].

The Lyall Muniments [ref.LL] relating chiefly to the Flitwick Estate of the Brooks family, were deposited here in 1953.