23rd Saturdays routine. Racing Cutters & Marine�s Whalers away. Recreation party landed. Hands bathed.
24th Sunday. Divine Service held.
25th Evolution, boats pull round squadron & abandon ship. Pomone went out for firing. Hands bathed. QGs started requalifying. Recreation party landed.
26th QGs at drill. Usual routine. Mail arrived. In galleys race Naiad beat Pomone by 1�
minutes, 3 mile course. Hands bathed. Dog watch out kedge anchor.
27th Exercised small arm companies. QGs at drill. Boats pulled round squadron. Whalers race. Perseus beat Pomone marines.
28th Aired bedding, make & mend. Evolution. Close watertight doors. Hands bathed. Recreation party landed.
29th Exercised General Quarters. Hands bathed.
30th Saturdays routine. Prepared for sea & left Muscat 5pm in company with HMS Naiad. Shaped for Karachi.
31st Sundays routine. Divine Service held. Ships rolling heavily. Turned in boats.
1st June Naiad & Perseus fired half Quarters practice. Arrived in Karachi 7pm. Fox here S.O. Special leave given. Turned out boats. Patrick Stewart here.
2nd Gave general leave to watch 1.30 pm to 6 am on 3rd. Watch out kedge.
3rd Usual routine. General leave from 1pm till 6am 4th. Prepared for coaling.
4th Coaled ship 100 tons. Cleaned ship. Special leave.
5th General Quarters. Special covers leave, 1.30 till 6am on steaming.
6th Saturdays routine. Prepared for sea. Turned in boats. Left Karachi at 4 pm for Bombay with HMS Naiad. Carried out three pounder & cannon tube night firing. Exercised night Quarters.
7th Sundays routine. Divine Service held.
8th General quarters. Fired Three Pounders & cannon tube. Turned out boats. Arrived in Bombay. Special leave.
9th Usual routine. HMS Naiad entered RIM Docks. Special leave.
10th Usual routine General leave to the watch 24 hours.
11th Usual routine. General leave to watch, 24 hrs.
12th Mail arrived. Party started muscle drill preparing for rifle practice. Expecting monsoon to break all day. At 8pm Monsoon broke in Bombay. Terrific winds from inland followed by fearful thunderstorm. Sea rough. Monsoon lasting all night, all yachts left harbour for monsoon weather.
13th Saturdays routine. Weather having moderated. Mail left P&O SS India. Monsoon again broke at 6pm. Heavy seas and wind blowing from seaward. Heavy storms.
14th Sunday. Divine Service held. Heavy rain & wind all day. Storms all night.
15th Morning started with monsoon in full force. Court Martial held on board Perseus.
16th Usual routine. Weather too bad for range parties to land. Heavy rain & winds. Turned in boats, preparing to enter basin.
17th Usual routine during forenoon. At 1.30pm slipped moorings and proceeded into basin in Princes Dock, it not being advisable for ships to make a stay long in the harbour during the monsoon. Weather today moderate, General Leave.
18th Usual routine Range party landed for Colaba 1pm. Gen leave. Weather very wet, heavy storms.
Time up till 6th July employed refitting & on 5th July Naiad went into the stream. Perseus went into Royal Indian Marine Dockyard. Ship�s Company to live in the Royal Alfred�s Sailors Home while ship is in dock. Good times in the home. Perseus moved into the basin on 21st. Monsoon in full force now in Bombay. Rain & strong gales every day. Perseus went into the stream on 30th & left for Colombo
31st Invalided. P&O�s Peninsular to London via P&O�s Australia from Aden to Tilbury Docks. 360 rupees passage.
The diary ends at this point.
The only other entries in the diary are a few addresses presumably where A. Barker lived, stayed or had friends or relatives.
An address at:
�Berkbeck Road� & �Wakefield Road� & �Queens Road, Battersea� & �Perry Road, Liverpool Road, Canning Town�
