Miriam LawrenceMIRIAM LAWRENCE wrote this intriguing memoir for her grandchildren 40 years after the voyage she made in 1848-50 with her husband Captain ALEXANDER LAWRENCE. Dramatic extracts are included from his log which was written four times each day of voyage;so both their viewpoints are revealed from different times. They set sail in the newly constructed ship, the CHARLOTTE JANE, a three-masted wooden sailing ship built in Bristol. Later in life Alexander Lawrence became captain of the Orient which was the first ship of the Orient Line and used as a hospital ship during the Crimean War. He subsequently set up his own trading company and owned several ships. They lived in Hampstead where Miriam brought up a family of seven daughters, one of whom died aged 11, and two sons; she had two other daughters who died in infancy. Read More Read Less