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If you need help transcribing see:
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Guides for US logs: drawing entry boxes, transcribing and editing (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3078.0)
Getting Your Sea Legs (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?board=4.0)
The Logs and FAQ (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?board=7.0)
Handwriting Help (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?board=8.0)
Technical Support (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?board=14.0)
If you are interested in the names of crew members see:
Bear -- Crew Lists (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3405.0)
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I
don't know if this picture is already doing the rounds - but found it
in Wiki... The Bear in Emma Harbour. Vast and daunting arctic vista!
Joan
Phew!
That puts human endeavour in perspective. Where is Emma
Harbour? I've only done a bit of transcribing on Manning so far,
and I don't think I've reached Emma.
Helen & Joan - Please excuse me for doubling up your posts, but I needed an empty first post.
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Wiki says:
A bay in Chukotka, Russia, now Komsomolskaya Bay, a
branch of Provideniya Bay, NE Siberia, just below where Siberia pretty
much touches Alaska (just a fraction to the left of dead centre on this
1928 map:
8)
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I just received my exciting purchase: 'The Coast Guard Expands
1865-1915, New Roles, New Frontiers. There's a whole chapter on the
Bear. And BOY have you got exciting times ahead - in about 1889 there's a
ship's uprising. Dr White (ship's dr) reports that for 30 days over the
July 'The Captain appears about crazy and is almost blind. He has
drunk...four gallons of my whisky besides his own and much more from the
whaler's beer and wine not counted. This makes four weeks of continuous
drunk.' :o :o :o Wow - that's going to be one interesting log -
lot's of reading between the lines I should think... Interestingly
Dr White makes a visit to the Thetis - and is very praiseworthy of it's
status. :D
My first impression of the US boats was 'boring' but now...bring it on! 8)
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That captain would be Michael "H..l Roaring Mike" Healy. A
very complex man, definitely a life-long alcoholic, who set the standard
for the role of the Coast Guard in the frozen north that is still
followed today.
He has a chapter in "Alaska and the U.S. Revenue
Cutter Service, 1867-1915" - By Truman R. Strobridge,
Dennis L. Noble
Not fully available to buy as an ebook, but the 3rd chapter comes up online and it is wholly about this one man.
http://books.google.com/books?id=VSx7-ZqB1C0C&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=Report+of+the+cruise+of+the+revenue+Corwin+1889&source=bl&ots=aNeb70eF0w&sig=nsV1Tl4wX0mflaDQQSZ4JZTfJO0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XWhXULLWMOf6yQH60YHQBA&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Hell%20Roaring%20Mike&f=false
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Yes he's really fascinating Janet,
He had the life of which
Holywood's great movies are made - born to a slave and a plantation
owner in the South - would have had to be a slave, so sent to NY -
brother became a Bishop - the first black bishop in the US, another
brother became the first President of Georgetown University. He fought
alcohol himself, and for native peoples in Alaska. Found himself having
to be the serious law enforcer, and aboard boat surrounded by many who
might have viewed him as lesser in social stature. 'By 1881, he was
known as a brilliant seaman; by 1894 he would become a legend in his own
time and the best known American in Alaska'.
What a whopper story - you couldn't make it up.. - anyone able to write the script - who'd star as Healy?
I found this book whilst nosing around:
Captain
"Hell Roaring" Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero (New
Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)
Dennis L. Noble (Author), Truman R. Strobridge (Author)
Hmmm -might go on the xmas list....
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Darn - replied in the other thread - OW addiction...sorry!
J :)
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If that's the worst mistake you make today, you are living the good life. ;D
I'm moving that answer to here - not simple, but definitely possible.
DONE.
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Whilst this probably should go under handwriting, as it is about the Bear I put it hear.
Just starting with the Bear I need some pointers as to the handwriting and what to expect.
Will
start with cloud type 9am
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0045_0.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0045_0.jpg)
I see Cum ~~
Any other unusual pages or hard to read pages with answers would be appreciated until I get my eye in.
TIA
Stuart.
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Do you want me to move these 2 posts into the Handwriting board and
making them the "Bear Help Desk" like was done for the Grafton
transcribers? This ship might need that.
And if I had to guess, the clouds would be Cum-Ch, which makes no sense at all. I'd leave the tildes in.
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what ever you think best.
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Cum Str
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Thanks randi, will note that in my new word file for fixing.
whilst
your hot to trot what is OCQ2 an at 6am and 8am and what is a 1pm
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0047_0.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0047_0.jpg)
Hope to be able to read the logs before she finishes her voyage. :D
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ocq2 = overcast with detached clouds and squally winds (worse than
usual squalls I assume, since squaring the 'q' is not in the chart
instructions.)
I had to look up squally to determine exactly what
kind of strong wind they were talking about exactly. (Mostly
because insomniacs get bored at night, I think.) It was mostly
what I thought. If the log keeper was squaring his q, they must
have been doing bad things indeed.
Webster's Dictionary 1913:
Pronunciation: skwạld
n. 1. A sudden and violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
The gray skirts of a lifting squall.
- Tennyson.
Black squall
a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds.
Thick squall
a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
White squall
a squall which comes unexpectedly, without being marked in its approach by the clouds.
- Totten.
[/list]
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It does look like ocq2, but I don't know what that means.
Here are the instructions for filing out the US log book: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3140.msg50700#msg50700
Janet beat me ;)
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Thanks for your prompt reply.
I can close the page now without having to edit it later.
I got the cloud formations ocq, but q2 thats one to store for later.
I guess it is like underscore or double underscore.
You both deserve another coffee for that.
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Perhaps this should simply be appended to the existing Bear thread to have all Bear issues in 1 thread?
(In
the case of Grafton (The Ships, The Battles & The People / MOVED:
HMS Grafton support desk ...), there was only that thread)
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You and Janet sort that one out. ;)
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I merged the topics. I hope this is what you wanted! :D
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That's how they were before I split them!
Truthfully, I was
following what Stuart seemed to want, and don't care that much.
Stuart, do you want them split or merged? If you care, we'll do
that. If you don't, majority rules on this among the mods and I'll
leave them as one. 8)
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I did not realize that I had made a choice.
Personally, I think all Bear stuff should be under the Bear heading.
Having said that, I am not going to complain (honest) if they are split.
I will leave it up to the powers to be.
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I think this is correct ;)
I will put a note about the q2 in Handwriting Help.
I have never seen that before (except for fog - and that is not quite the same), but it may be more common on US ships.
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Can someone who is further on than me (16 may 1884) tell me why the
log reads 'Called all hands to abandon ship' etc and they are still
taking readings the next day?
It did not indicate it was a drill.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0066_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0066_1.jpg)
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There's no mention of it over the next week, so I guess it must have
been a drill...does seem odd though. Especially as it does not mention
re-stowing all the gear. :-\
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Looks like they didn't put the two month's provisions into the
boats, which they surely would have if it hadn't been a drill. The log
keeper must have thought that the continuation of the log was sufficient
indication of a drill.
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It did say 'Fitted all boats with two months provisions and all
their equipment...............and stored two months provisions on
deck........"
No mention of raising the boats back on board.
We will see.
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If you are trying sailing to Disko Island, the port is Godhavn, it looks like Godham in earlier pages.
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Just goes to prove, Greenland was owned by and settled by
Scandihoovians. I'm using what you found to teach me what kind of
spelling to expect. (Not so far off some of what I've been in, I'm
an Ole from St. Olaf college. They tell everyone who comes that
they'll be Scandihoovian when they leave. ;D )
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I enjoyed my 3 weeks in Scandihoovian land last Feb.
I am not an Ole just an ofe. :D
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;D
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May 22 1884.
Just left Godhavn.
To me the log reads Upesnavik and that is what i have entered(The s looks like the second s in passage).
I think Bear is actually heading for Upernavik.
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Yep. A quote of myself from another post:
And there is a
marvelous map of the Arctic
(http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~31893~1151216:Canada,-Alasca,-Groenlandia,-Canada?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:greenland;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=14&trs=310)
in the David Rumsey collection by Touring club italiano, 1929. It
is too small to show Lady Franklin Bay, but it does label the Hall
Basin it opens into. And it is in Canada, Ellesmere Island, not
Greenland.
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Can anybody tell me the name of the SS mentioned throughout the page, she seems to be running in tandem with the Bear.
I can read some of the log handwriting but still having some trouble with some words.
TIA
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Not without being able to see the page ....
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Don't you just hate it when you forget.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0076_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0076_1.jpg)
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Looks like Fainne to me, but I don't find anything :-\
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It seems to vary slightly with each mention.
Will note the page url and when I get more time and I hope I can get a few choices, I will go back to it.
Ta.
Whilst
researching and trying 'frinne ship 1884' I came across
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens, Interesting
reading very grew some.
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Looks like Jainone to me ?
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Whilst
researching and trying 'frinne ship 1884' I came across
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens, Interesting
reading very grew some.
Bleeeaarrrrgghhhh :P :P :P - bet better than starving I guess.... ::)
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the first 2 letters look exactly like those in "Fresh", so maybe "Frinne"?
After I typed that, I searched on the map. There is a town in Sweden named Frinnestadt.
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Hello Caro and Randi, and any others!
For a forum page picture I've found:
There's either the picture in the thread:
link=topic=3096.msg50190#msg50190 date=1346597621
or
the attached. Sadly I couldn't find any decent pictures of her as the
feature ship in the 1930's movie version of Jack London's 'Sea Wolf'
(only images found were the 1941 film = another boat)
One is at
port - by not so pretty storage buildings, one is a bit washed out, one
is a view of the arctic taken from the bear. For a boat that was
around for along time I was surprised not to find more pictures.
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and one more
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oh dear - two are too big - I'll send links of the url's via the PM system.
The picture at Seattle is fantastic - look at 'in big' to see a VERY smart car on the dock!
:D :D
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I did a Bing image search for "USRC Bear" and came up with this page. Follow any of the images to its source. ;D
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%22USRC+Bear%22&go=&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=%22usrc+bear%22&sc=3-11&sp=-1&sk=
The bright red modern cutter included is I think the USRC Healy.
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oh no - I was using 'USCG' that explains a lot!!!
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So many to choose from - but this is my favourite only it's too big
at about 390 KB - is there any way to reduce that? I'm not very good at
that end of computing.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/49/094902918.jpg
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(http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/49/094902918.jpg)
I'm sure Caro could do better ;D
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It's that tiny fragile ladder leading off the bow that peaks my
interest in this one. The steam up, odd rigging - the strange double
yard arm above the mainsail that single's her out so easily, caught in
ice. The whole thing smacks of adventure, and a successful homecoming
despite all of that.
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Is this what you want?
Nice pic, including the border, adds character to it.
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Let me know if you would like a coloured version.
I promise not to make the colours too outlandish unless, of course, you like outlandish.
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Hi Stuart,
Yes - That's the one..there are so many to choose from
really, but the symbols on this one seem to hit the mark for the great
Bear.
Caro has given the last couple a special touch up too - so if
we are very good and ask VERY nicely..we might get a splash of colour
into the icy white wilderness..though only the colour blue comes to my
mind when looking at a scene like this. Brrrrr!
I'm just sorting out
stuff for tomorrow morning - so not on for long now. I've done the
weather grid for the Bear (are you trying it via excel - if so do let me
now how...I have a theory myself)
J :D
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I like the B/W, after all the snow and ice was white in those days.
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Hi Joan.
How do I get the xl grid?
Send me (the file that is) by email.
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Aha! Caro - great minds think alike! ;D I see Stuart's a great believer in white ice....
J :D
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Hi Joan.
How do I get the xl grid?
Send me (the file that is) by email.
I'm still working on it -it's coming!!
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31 May 1884
Once again it looks like they are practicing for abandoning ship. ;)
1 June 1884
Grounded on a rock and developed leaks. :-[
Self determination theory? :-\
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Self-fulfilling prophecy?
You know you're prepared so you get overconfident?
::)
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28 January 1915: President Woodrow Wilson signed into law
the "Act to Create the Coast Guard," an act passed by Congress on 20
January, 1915 that combined the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter
Service to form the Coast Guard
;D
We have actually been identifying these ships incorrectly. :o :D
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Tradition!!! What does logic matter? ;D
If google and
bing searches and the Coast Guard itself say Revenue Cutter Bear
(http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Bear1885.asp), then I have no
intention of arguing with it.
I would note that in her 1884 logs
we have, she had just been purchased by the USN and was the USS
Bear. But that only lasted one year. :)
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I think the simplest thing is to go by what the vessels page (http://www.oldweather.org/ships/) has :-\
Would anyone mind if I changed the name of this topic to USRC Bear ?
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31 May 1884
Once again it looks like they are practicing for abandoning ship. ;)
1 June 1884
Grounded on a rock and developed leaks. :-[
Self determination theory? :-\
No
- it's the wherewithall/sense boundary dilemma...you know you don't
have the wherewithall to avoid hitting rocks - but at lest you have the
sense to be ready for when you do. :-\ ::)
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I think the simplest thing is to go by what the vessels page (http://www.oldweather.org/ships/) has :-\
Would anyone mind if I changed the name of this topic to USRC Bear ?
Go for it.
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Very interesting. I've never before tried to change the topic
on a long thread. Even the mods don't have a command to do that.
So
I started simple, and changed the topic on just the initial post.
That changed what the index lists. And this reply automatically
came up "USRC Bear". But everything on 5 pages in the middle
stayed untouched.
And as far as this mod is concerned, that's all
we are going to get. I really don't want to fuss with everything
in between. 8)
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Works for me.
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Work for me too ;)
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Misc pages 4 & 5 June 1884 in reverse order in log. Entered as per log order.
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;D
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June 1884 Bear started to use decimal heights. 29.80 the .80 etc.
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Can one of the Mods please tell me how much of the recovery of the
Greely party DenisO has transcribed. Was it covered in detail. If not
then I will.
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I don't know of any way to see what he did.
Maybe Caro or Janet?
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As far as I know, the only way to find out at this stage is to ask DenisO.
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Yep - only the analysts in the home office can open the
transcription records, nobody at all can mess with them. Until the
ship reaches VAL which is too late for this question.
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Bear July 4 1884.
Log keeper has put state of sea reading (S) in the amount of cloud cover column for AM. So have I.
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I think that the following applies in this case...
Exceptions
Dittos
...
Weather Data in the Wrong Column
When the log keeper has CLEARLY entered the weather data in the wrong column, it should be put in the correct column.
Only
correct entries if it is absolutely certain that they are in the wrong
column - like 29.83 for wind direction or West for weather code.
The weather entries of HMS Mantua in mid-1917 are a little eccentric at times.
The
4 pm entries on August 10
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM_53-48297/ADM%2053-48297-008_0.jpg)
are more than a little eccentric. I don't know what they had for
afternoon tea that day.
In this case, to avoid losing the data completely, Philip has asked that the entries are put in the correct columns.
This definitely goes to show that if you're not sure how to deal with peculiar log entries, the best thing to do is ask here. :D [my emphasis]
Do
NOT switch columns just because the wet bulb temperature is higher than
the dry bulb temperature. There may be other problems with these
records and the team wants to know about them.
...
It is a wet-bulb temperature, from which we infer the humidity, and it
should never be higher than the dry-bulb temperature (that is, the air
temperature in the previous column). Comparing wet and dry-bulb
temperatures is one of the checks we do on the observations to make sure
they are sensible before using them. ...
If
you have questions or comments, or want to notify the analysts about
odd cases, please post them in: Type What You See - Questions and
Comments
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3192.msg51626#msg51626)
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Will do.
Left the page to go sight seeing.
:)
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Have fun!
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June 1884 Bear started to use decimal heights. 29.80 the .80 etc.
Hi Stuart,
This is odd:
She was using decimal earlier than June:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0046_0.jpg
Was
there a specific note in the log about a change that you recall..if so
I'll have a hunt for it (don't suppose you recall the date?)?
Hope your enjoying the green fields of Niamtuk (did I remember that right?)
J 8)
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I found this page interesting about the Bear.
http://www.hazegray.org/features/bear/ (http://www.hazegray.org/features/bear/)
Stuart.
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Found this map of the Bear's 1900 trip:
http://www.uscg.mil/history/img/bearchart1900.jpg
Hope it helps
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Thanks Joan for the map.
Most of the fields around Natimuk were yellow with Canola.
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ummmm...doh...what does 'yellow with canola' mean? I've probably just made a right idiot of myself asking that. ;) :-\ ::)
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The flower of the plant that produces canola is yellow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola
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Like these.
Don't feel to bad, there are some things even I don't know (Just ask my wife) ;D ;D
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Just in the middle of playing with the new interface and with Bear:
They
rec'd 111 tons of coal in port in Newfoundland but never entered it in
the fuel spaces on the weather page. Instead it was a sentence on
the comments page. I chose to use the Refuel tab for that.
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There is no field for it on the weather page.
If coal received is mentioned anywhere, I agree that it should go on the Refueling tab.
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Start of log book entries. 23rd Sept 1884
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0004_0.jpg
and also
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0003_1.jpg
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There are 4 of them. It's nice to have them in the discussion thread.
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0003_1.jpg)
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0004_0.jpg)
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0004_1.jpg)
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_002_jpgs/b002of002_0005_0.jpg)
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I only got the two posted which show 1884 but my log pages are dated 1881 ???.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rodgers/Rodgers_1881/b001of010_0033_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rodgers/Rodgers_1881/b001of010_0033_1.jpg)
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rodgers/Rodgers_1881/b001of010_0034_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Rodgers/Rodgers_1881/b001of010_0034_1.jpg)
The days are correct for the dates in 1881 not 1884.
I am confuzzed. :-[
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The pages you posted first are for Bear. The ones in today's post are for Rodgers. If that helps. :)
They belong in http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=2973.0
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****! I looked, but I missed the obvious :-[
Good someone around here is awake (even if they should be asleep?) ;D
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Sun's up here, and I'm sort-of awake. About to get my coffee.
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10404/t1990.gif)
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Oh dear. :-[
That's what happens when you jump ship to another and forget to tell your brain.
I changed ships whilst waiting for an answer so I did not loose the pages.
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Consider proof of being human. ;D
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Hmm...so who was eating butter-dripping toast over the log book then? ;D ;D
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0124_1.jpg
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Following
Thetis around on the Bear, and it seems that Thetis has only gone and
got itself jammed in ice. Cue a rather fun attempt to free her:
"9.30
Came up with Thetis, caught in a light nip, unable to move. Gave her a
6in Manilla hawser and took from her a 3in steel hawser; parted both
lines, while attempting to moor her astern. At 10.45 moored to ice close
astern of Thetis and banked fires. Sent torpedo apparatus with Ensign
Reynolds and four gun cotton torpedoes to assist in blasting Thetis
loose. The Thetis used six gunpowder cartridges and the attempt failed
to loosen the ice."
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/BEAR_001_jpgs/b001of002_0086_1.jpg
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...And
they used the Coast Guard ships as mobile health care units.
Digging a bit (my curiousity got away from me again!) gave me this
picture for 1915 Bear, whenever we get those logs:
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/images.dir/136.gif)
Public Health Service officers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Bear.
Since
1879 medical officers of the Service have been assigned to Coast Guard
vessels. Many of the early assignments were on expeditions to Alaska,
the Arctic, and on training cruises from the Coast Guard Academy. The
Bear was built in Scotland in 1873 and was especially designed for
navigating through ocean ice. After being acquired by the Federal
Government in 1884, the Bear served in the Arctic for nearly 40 years on
various rescue, assistance, investigation, and patrol missions.
c. 1915
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/healthcare.html#136
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USRS Bear, July 1887: Captain Healy and the search for J B Vincernt .
"Healy
was also the savior of mariners in the waters of the Pacific. When a
whaler gave him a piece of wood with a message carved on it thathad been
given to a whaler by a Siberian native, Healy did not know if it was a
legitimate call for help or a ruse to lure him away from sealing
grounds. Nevetheless, he acted quickly to try to save a life, if that
was possiblity. On one side of the wood, the message read, "1887. J. B.
V. Br. Nap. Tobacco Give." on the other side, it read "S.W.C. Nav. M.
10. Help. Come."
He decided that he message could be from J.B.
Vincent of Martha's Vineyard, who was a boat steerer on the whaling bark
"Napoleon" that had been lost in a gale on 5 May 1885. The Bear
departed Port Clarenc, Alaska, and steamed 150 miles to a location
10 miles southwest of Cape Navarin, Siberia, where Healy thought
Vincent might be. In fact Healy found Vincent fishing at the exact
location where his message said he would be. He was the only man to
survive "Napoleon"'s disaster who had not be picked up in 1885. Healy's
immediate response made it possible for Vincent to return home; it was
representative of Healy's humanitarian side.
Irving H King "The Coast Guard expands, 1865-1915: New Roles, New Frontiers", page 86"
USRS Bear July 17th, 1887
J B Vincent found and brought on board and list of articles sent as a reward to Siberian natives:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol066/vol066_065_1.jpg
July 18th, 1887:
at 8am-Noon: list of trade goods given as payment to Indian guide:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol066/vol066_066_1.jpg
A
letter from 3rd Lieut C. D. Kennedy to his father with an account of
Bear's voyage and a diagram of J B Vincent's carved message:
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70917FC3E5413738DDDA90B94D0405B8784F0D3
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Interesting!
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Fascinating Sylvia! I really enjoyed those details.
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Have you seen this sleeping bag?
I'm
a historian of exploration at the University of Hartford. I've been
trying to help a museum in Connecticut uncover more information about a
sleeping bag that they discovered in their collection from the Greely
Expedition. The sleeping bag is in pretty rough shape, but it does have a
label stating that it came from the USS Bear -- one of the relief ships
that rescued the survivors of expedition party in Smith Sound in 1884. I
thought that the Bear's log, ship's manifest, or list of relics might
have more information about the bag. I know that Old Weather has
digitized the Bear's log -- does Old Weather or National Archives have
the entire log/manifest online? Or should I contact NA in Washington for
this? Any information you might offer is appreciated. Thanks. Michael
Robinson.
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There is a changing in USRS Bear's log books.
The volume ending December 12th, 1892 has pages of the "usual" type
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_126_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_126_1.jpg
In the following volume, from 3/1892 to 2/1894, the logs appear like that:
2 days per page till April 27th, 1892
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg
Only two blank pages are between April 27th and December 13th 1892
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_018_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_018_1.jpg
and then 1 day per page from December 13th, 1892
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_0.jpg.
to February 1st, 1893, so far.
Since
some values for Barometer and Temperature are present at the end of
each watch entry. I was wondering if and how I should record those
values.
As regards the sleeping bag, I transcribed year
1884 about seven months ago. I will try to find out a possible reference
to that sleeping bag.
Please be patient :)
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::) ::) ::)
I will check with Philip ;D
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We are clearly looking at overlapping log books and volume 071 is
the odd book out - the question in my mind is, Where are the full
weather record logs for after the 12th of December 1892? Are they
volume 072?
Definitely one for Philip.
Thanks for going into the sleeping bag search. :)
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After the 12'th (and some before) they are in 071
- 1
March 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg)
to 26 April 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_017_0.jpg)
2
days per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for Noon and Mid in the left margin of each page.
- 27
April 1892 and 13 December 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_0.jpg)
to 1 May 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_088_0.jpg)
(Only two blank pages are between April 27th and December 13th 1892)
1 day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature are recorded at the end of the events for each watch.
- 13
November 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_089_0.jpg)
to 8 February 1894
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_132_1.jpg)
(Only one blank page is between 1 May 1893 and 13 November 1893)
1
day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for 4am, 8am, 12am, 4pm, 8pm, and 12pm in the left margin
of each page.
Bear seems to be in San Francisco for most of this period.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_007_1.jpg - 1 Oct 1891
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_082_1.jpg - 12 Dec 1891
:o
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_085_1.jpg - 1 Nov 1892
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_126_1.jpg - 12 Dec 1892
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I know this, but Bear is one of the ships with both "rough" and
"finished" logbooks covering the same date. Arfon is supposed to
find some free time to separate them out, although that is
understandably difficult. The plan is to remove the rough logs
from the interface and transcribe only the finished logs. Finding
the finished logs for Silvia to do is the problem.
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As far as I can tell, there is no duplication on the pages Silvia is talking about.
070 seems to duplicate part of 070A - not sure which is the rough.
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OK, this is totally confusing to me. This is the
most mixed up set of logbooks in the history of the project!!! 3
different books, all alternating to cover the same timeframe.
Just walking through the pages for myself in chronological order:
Volume 70A goes from 1 Oct. 1891 to 12 Dec 1891:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_007_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_082_1.jpg
then summarizes the entire 104 day cruise:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_083_1.jpg
then goes to blank page:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_084_1.jpg
from
13 Dec. 1891 to 29 Feb. 1892: in yet unknown logbook; Volume 72
cannot be located by manually walking up and down the pages.
Volume 71 goes from 1 Mar. 1892 to 27 Apr. 1892:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_017_1.jpg
and has a blank page:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_018_1.jpg
from
28 April 1892 to 31 Oct. 1892: in yet unknown logbook; Volume 72
cannot be located by manually walking up and down the pages.
Volume 70A takes up the log again for 1 Nov. 1892 to 12 Dec. 1892:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_085_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_126_1.jpg
then summarizes the voyage from April to December 1892:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_127_1.jpg
and then ends with a single blank page:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_128_1.jpg
Volume 71 takes up the log again 14 Dec. 1892 to 1 May 1893
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_088_0.jpg
and then has a blank page
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_088_1.jpg
Volume 73 takes up from 2 May 1893 to 12 Nov. 1893:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_006_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_211_1.jpg
followed by a blank page and end of book:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_212_1.jpg
Volume 71 continues from 13 Nov. 1893 to 10 Feb. 1894:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_089_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_133_1.jpg
End of book
:o :o ::)
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Add to the above, Volume 70 and 70A are logging the same dates in different books and handwriting:
Friday, October 2nd, 1891: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_007_1.jpg
Friday, October 2nd, 1891: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_008_1.jpg
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According to Kevin the duplicate logs were removed by 26 January.
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3346.msg60468#msg60468
So, 070 may be still accessible by address but they may not come up when transcribing.
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That is good news. I know the jpg links do not go through the
interface at all, but come straight from the image storage.
Does anyone know what exact coding they used for Volume 72? It would be good to complete the chronology.
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Thank you Philip!
Hi Randi & Silvia.
Yes
please, and yes. Please do record the pressure and temperature, and the
end time of the watch sounds like the best hour.
Thanks, Philip.
Hi Philip,
Silvia
has just discovered a variety of nonstandard log pages on Bear:
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3096.msg65627#msg65627
- 1
March 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg)
to 26 April 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_017_0.jpg)
2
days per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for Noon and Mid in the left margin of each page.
- 27
April 1892 and 13 December 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_0.jpg)
to 1 May 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_088_0.jpg)
(Only two blank pages are between April 27th and December 13th 1892)
1 day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature are recorded at the end of the events for each watch.
- 13
November 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_089_0.jpg)
to 8 February 1894
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_132_1.jpg)
(Only one blank page is between 1 May 1893 and 13 November 1893)
1
day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for 4am, 8am, 12am, 4pm, 8pm, and 12pm in the left margin
of each page.
Bear seems to be in San Francisco for most of this period.
Silvia
is willing to record these values. Would these be useful? Should she
use the ending time of the watch in the second case?
Thanks,
Randi
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Thanks to Randi, Janet, and Lollia for looking into the Bear
sleeping bag question. Since I posted my question, I've looked through
Greely's book Three Years of Arctic Service as well as the official
Inquiry of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. It appears that the party
brought buffalo, sealskin, sheepskin, and dogskin sleeping bags. I don't
think this sleeping bag is made of any of these animal skins. Kevin
Wood found a Relief Expedition Inventory of the Bear which lists
requests for one reindeer sleeping bag for each enlisted man. My hunch
is that this animal skin is, in fact, reindeer, and the bag is from one
of the men on the Bear (rather than from the Greely Expedition party on
Cape Sabine). Kevin was unable to track down a list of enlisted
personnel aboard the Bear so I'm not sure if S A Barrymore was one of
the crew, or received the bag from one of the crew. This is where the
mystery stands. Thanks again for the help.
Michael
Have you seen this sleeping bag?
I'm
a historian of exploration at the University of Hartford. I've been
trying to help a museum in Connecticut uncover more information about a
sleeping bag that they discovered in their collection from the Greely
Expedition. The sleeping bag is in pretty rough shape, but it does have a
label stating that it came from the USS Bear -- one of the relief ships
that rescued the survivors of expedition party in Smith Sound in 1884. I
thought that the Bear's log, ship's manifest, or list of relics might
have more information about the bag. I know that Old Weather has
digitized the Bear's log -- does Old Weather or National Archives have
the entire log/manifest online? Or should I contact NA in Washington for
this? Any information you might offer is appreciated. Thanks. Michael
Robinson.
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Bear -- Crew Lists (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3405.0)
There
is nothing here so far and since that voyage has been transcribed there
probably won't be, but you might want to keep an eye on this topic. I
searched Crew Lists for the other ships and didn't find Barrymore.
Perhaps someone will find him when we get to the editing stage.
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Ancestry.com has no records of any S A Barrymore.
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It could be that Barrymore was a civilian who received or purchased
the bag from a member of the Relief Expedition after its return. The
museum has a note from Barrymore thanking the director of the museum for
a pair of tickets. I don't think the note has any information about
title or home address but it may mean that he was local to the New
York-Connecticut area. Thanks again.
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Also, "S A" may be a rating "Seaman Apprentice" or something.
The fact that I can't find any "S Barrymore" or "A Barrymore" proved to
me that there were a very great many other Barrymores around at the
time.
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Hello,
Just jumping in with additional information about the
reindeer sleeping bag in the collection at the museum. Thanks to
everyone who has been keeping an eye out for information about
Barrymore. I have some better information to offer now, based on
research in archives at the public library and through ancestry.com, as
well as a book, Stratford and the Sea by
Lewis Knapp. Newspaper clippings in a late 19th century
scrapbook revealed that the donor of the sleeping bag, S. A. Barrymore,
was the widow of the man to whom it had been given. Susan A. Curtis Barrymore and her husband William Barrymore
lived in Stratford, Conn. He served seven years active duty in
the Navy, which included the years of the Civil War. Born in
England, his home (at least after his marriage) was Stratford, Conn.,
but he was buried in Stonington, Conn. According to the
brief article, a member of the Greely relief expedition on the Bear
"presented him" with the reindeer sleeping bag, and a dog collar and
harness. I do not know who that was, which is the mystery I'd like
to solve now that we know who actual the recipient was!
Captain
Barrymore passed away in Jan. 1890 of cerebral meningitis; he was only
in his early 50s. His widow gave the items to the museum four
months later, and she herself passed away just a few years later, in
1896, at age 55. (None of their four children survived to
maturity). A clue to Barrymore's connections seems to be the
Brooklyn Naval Yard, as the pallbearers were sailors from there; in
addition, Barrymore was a member of the GAR Post (U.S. Grant Post #327)
in Brooklyn. Barrymore was Acting Master of the Dandelion and Acacia during the war, and afterwards, of the North Carolina, according to Lewis Knapp. Later, in 1874, Barrymore was appointed Master of Tugs in New York.
Since
Barrymore was associated with quite a few vessels (more than I have
named here), I am wondering if it is even possible to trace a connection
to someone he might have known in his naval career who later served on
the Bear. But I thought I'd get this information out in
case anyone does come across Barrymore's name or a clue to a Bear crew
member whom he knew. I appreciate all the help that has been given
so far, especially the list of supplies that were given to each man on
the Greely relief expedition. The documentation of reindeer
sleeping bags confirms what I have now learned from the old newspaper
clippings!
Thanks again,
Adrienne
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Thank you, Adrienne. It's nice to have a finish to the story.
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Thanks for the update!
We'll keep an eye open, but it doesn't sound too hopeful.
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It might be interesting to look into Melville's role in equipping
the Bear & Thetis for the relief expedition. As I recall reindeer
bags were supplied to USS Jeannette by the Alaska Commercial Co., and of
course the reindeer is central in all the cultures Melville encountered
in Siberia. He no doubt learned a great deal during his time there.
There is a picture of a sled he designed for the Greely relief here:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/ipy-1/images/S-008.jpg
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Cool. He clearly had the imagination to fuse ideas from various cultures to get the best engineering available.
(http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/ipy-1/images/S-008.jpg)
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Something I just noticed looking at the picture again - his sled
appears to be symmetrical top & bottom. This would help solve the
problem of broken runners since this could be used either side up. Break
a runner, flip the sled and keep rushing to the rescue. Fix the runner
at the next camp.
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Clever
- and so obvious once someone does it ;)
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I've heard a number of folks in my life poo-poo engineers - they
aren't properly theoretical to be equal to scientists. I still
believe a really superb engineer has true genius. They produce
solid, working, beautiful objects.
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Melville gives a long description of how to run an expedition to the
Pole - do we know of any critique of this by those who finally got
there/modern adventurers? I wonder if the likes of Amundsen
commented/learnt from Melville?
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See examples in:
Bear -- Reference: Transcription Example and Log Description
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3615.0)
Hi Randi & Silvia.
Yes
please, and yes. Please do record the pressure and temperature, and the
end time of the watch sounds like the best hour.
Thanks, Philip.
Hi Philip,
Silvia
has just discovered a variety of nonstandard log pages on Bear:
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3096.msg65627#msg65627
- 1
March 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg)
to 26 April 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_017_0.jpg)
2
days per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for Noon and Mid in the left margin of each page.
- 27
April 1892 and 13 December 1892
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_0.jpg)
to 1 May 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_088_0.jpg)
(Only two blank pages are between April 27th and December 13th 1892)
1 day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature are recorded at the end of the events for each watch.
- 13
November 1893
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_089_0.jpg)
to 8 February 1894
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_132_1.jpg)
(Only one blank page is between 1 May 1893 and 13 November 1893)
1
day per page. There is no weather grid, but pressure and temperature
are recorded for 4am, 8am, 12am, 4pm, 8pm, and 12pm in the left margin
of each page.
Bear seems to be in San Francisco for most of this period.
Silvia
is willing to record these values. Would these be useful? Should she
use the ending time of the watch in the second case?
Thanks,
Randi
Please see this update to these instructions: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3513.msg67981#msg67981
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Ahoy from the Patterson
Sunday, September 21, 1913 at Unalaska (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USCS%20Patterson/Book%2013/IMG_6339_1.jpg).
Your logs seem to be much earlier in time than this, but maybe you'll get to find us as well.
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I don't know about Sept 1013 specifically, but we have/are getting later logs.
We'll keep an eye out for you!
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Jil passes the 500 mark!
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eikwar passes the 500 mark!
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Shopping early for Christmas? :)
31st August 1894 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20151_1.jpg
11.30 Sent in sailing launch to bring off deer. Building deer pen on main deck.
2.15 Sailing launch returned with two(2) deer.
6.30
Sailing launch returned with fourteen (14) reindeer, making total of
sixteen purchased at this place. Paid Natives in trade for same.
1st September 1894 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20152_1.jpg
At 4.50 launch returned with five(5) reindeer. Paid Natives for same in trade goods.
2nd September 1894 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20153_1.jpg
At
5.55 came to anchor off Village, Cape Serdze, and sent to negotiate for
deer. 7.00am officer returned on board and reported no deer obtainable;
the herd being to Wd of the Cape
At 2.20 launch returned with six(6) deer. 3.00pm sent in launch again for deer. Large number of Natives on board.
At
6.00 launch returned with eight deer, also received one(1) deer from
native boat alongside. Paid Natives for reindeer received, in trade.
Must have made cleaning the ship interesting!
Can
anyone work out the name of the village they are anchored at on 1st and
2nd Sept? And the village mentioned at 9.40am on 2nd? The lat/long from
close to these dates confirms they are near Cape Serdse-Kamen.
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Not for Santa then. :'(
6th Sept 1894 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20157_1.jpg
At 5.30 underway and steamed in toward Reindeer Station, where at 6.00 came to. Commenced landing reindeer.
7.30 Finished landing deer (36 in all), swimming the last 13 ashore.
A
brief history of Alaskan reindeer
(http://www.alaskool.org/projects/reindeer/history/iser1969/rdeer_1.html)
mentions Bear and Capt. Healy.
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25th Sept 1894 - Hello to Corwin! - at Unalaska and handed over some coal
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20176_1.jpg
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jil passes the 1000 mark!
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rarebks
welcome to the top 12 !
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jil passes the 1500 mark!
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jil passes the 2000 mark!
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Met the Corwin - November 14 1894, San Francisco. And returning some
crew - '3rd Lieut. G.M. Daniels and guard of four men, brought down
from St. George Island, left the Vessel to rejoin the Corwin.'
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20228_1.jpg
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From Nov 1894 above, next pages front of log book starting 5th May 1886. Are the log books scanned in random order?
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I believe that Bear was scanned in several different sessions.
There were some logbooks that required treatment before they could be scanned. That might be the case here.
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I think we can assume that is what is happening anytime any 19th
century logs end up out of order. The nice part about NARA doing
their own scanning at archive quality (and letting us scale it down to
the jpeg level our interface uses, and we used to purchase from the RN)
is that they love the opportunity to look at and preserve old
deteriorating paper - and we are never getting logs too faded to be
read. The bad news is, damaged logs sent to the logbook hospital
get scanned out of order.
I think it is worth the wait. :)
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jil passes the 2500 mark!
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Providing social services: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_092_1.jpg
8 to Mer: Emil Adams engineer of the lost Bark "Carver" was taken on board from the Bark "Ohio" until he can secure employment.
6
to 8pm: Emil Adams from the derilict "John Carver" left the ship &
was engaged on Bark "Ocean". Received on board from station recently
abandoned by Pacific Steam Whaling Co. Joe, his wife & two children
destitute as passengers for St. Michaels they being unable to procure
passage thence and being destitute & without food here and the means
for obtaining the same.
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Reason why Emil Adams needed taxi service:
The daily herald., September 22, 1886, Image 3
About The daily herald. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047239/1886-09-22/ed-1/seq-3/
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hgPxuqnK1Gw/UqISlxbNreI/AAAAAAAACnU/FHdaMbVWooA/w382-h546-no/whaling+bark+John+Carver+1.GIF)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gMWijX_apVI/UqISl00bEoI/AAAAAAAACnY/e9CRasRsm7A/w380-h526-no/whaling+bark+John+Carver+2.GIF)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rF3z7QHn79M/UqISl0t-FHI/AAAAAAAACnc/2dWLg0LR5tc/w376-h276-no/whaling+bark+John+Carver+3.GIF)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-YldYyHMh7QM/UqISm7MUR2I/AAAAAAAACnk/so7Qk81HlHU/w380-h356-no/whaling+bark+John+Carver+4.GIF)
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Interesting find, Janet. And it reminds me that a few days previous
to the above log the Bear's surgeon had been visiting various whaling
ships to render medical assistance.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_079_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_081_1.jpg
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extending medical and other assistance seems to be standard procedure for the Bear in the arctic.
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I was working on a page for Thetis when I discovered that the Marine Hospital Service (MHS) ("established in 1798 to provide for the medical care of merchant seamen") led to the development of the National Institutes of Health!
http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/history/index.html
...
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13th August 1886 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_108_1.jpg
Sent an officer to the station and brought off Ensign Howard and one man of the Stoney Expedition.
While
checking to confirm the names I found an acticle
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_33/July_1888/Arctic_Alaska#top)
written by Ensign Howard about the expedition. The Rodgers (as Lieut.
Stoney was one of her officers), Jeannette and Corwin also get a mention
but not the Bear which is a bit mean if they are giving him a lift
home!
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Thanks, that's interesting. I added your posts to the Rodgers and Corwin discussions.
I really liked the descriptions of how the natives coped so successfully with the bitter climate.
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Very interesting article! Very detailed and well written descriptions.
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jil passes the 3000 mark!
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August 18th 1886
7.30 Kept of SSE to speak a schooner. 7.40
Stopped engine & hove to & communicated with her & sent an
officer to board her. proving to be the schr. "Henrietta" of San
Francisco, Dexter master. Captain Dexter reported having sold his vessel
to a native chief at Cape Tchaplin, Siberia for 4000 lbs whalebone and
now seeking a vessel to take his crew and whalebone to San
Francisco. :o
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_113_1.jpg
The plot thickens from Daily Alta 10th October 1886 (http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18861010.2.40)
The
Russian steamer Alexander II, Captain Sandman, arrived from
Petropaulski yesterday, having as passengers Captain Dexter and second
officer of the schooner Henrietta. The latter vessel was seized August
28th by the Russian man-of-war Krizer, for trading in Russian waters.
When searched, the cargo consisted of 4,000 pounds of whalebone, 500 fox
skins and 1,000 pounds of ivory, all of which was confiscated. The
Henrietta was taken to Vladivostock to be sold.
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???
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The news somewhat explains why he had "sold" his ship out from under himself. ::)
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From Kevin:
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The
Russian man-of-war mentioned above. In 1889 the surgeon of the Bear
(Dr. White) made a call on this vessel when it was anchored in Unalaska.
From his personal diary:
"About 10:30 four of us made a call on the Russians. Though we could hardly understand each other we got along
very nicely for they could say in English ?Have a smoke? or ?Have a drink? and we would say ?Yes?."
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;D
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;D What more language skills do you need than that? Although personally I would replace 'smoke' with 'chocolate'.
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Definitely ;D
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It's funny - 'yes' to 'have a drink?' works well, but 'no' is simply not an understandable response.
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;D
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A confusing evening of wind! - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_132_0.jpg
6pm Calm, Force 2
8pm Calm, Force 1
10pm NNE, Force 0
The matching events page has no mention of excessive rum rations ;)
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::) ::) ::)
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I've just realised that they appear to have got the date wrong on
the matching event page as well ::). Written as August 6th 1886
but I think that should be September 6th. Definitely having a bad day!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol065/vol065_132_1.jpg
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17th July (although month not entered!) 1887 -
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol066/vol066_065_1.jpg
At
11 boat returned with searching party bringing J.B. Vincent the
survivor of whaling Bark Napoleon wrecked off the coast in May
1885 :o
Comdg officer ordered the issue of an extra ration
for JB Vincent. Sent boats on shore with the following articles for the
natives as a reward for help extended to survivor of Bark Napoleon -
800lbs bread, 10 gals molasses, 250 lbs flour, 40lbs pork, 6 quarts of
beans, 1 Rifle 100 cartridges
Report from NY Times
(http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D11FC3A5D10738DDDA10894D0405B8584F0D3)
- the Napoleon was crushed by ice.
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Janet, I was looking for another news clipping because the NY Times
articles are actively copyrighted - I have no trouble using them in the
forum as they are properly purchased, but using them expires in 3
months, so future editors can't use it. What I found was a very
powerful story of attempting to survive in the arctic wilderness after
the Napoleon was lost in 1885.
St. Paul daily globe., August 24, 1887, Page 5, Image 7
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1887-08-24/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1885&index=0&rows=20&words=Hunting+Sailors+Wrecked&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1888&proxtext=%22hunting+for+wrecked+Sailors%22&y=13&x=16&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8zJ-n_Dk_cs/UsB-FjPFosI/AAAAAAAACyY/l0ipoIBxnk8/w333-h417-no/bark+Napoleon+0.GIF)
This update got front page coverage.
Los
Angeles daily herald., September 25, 1887, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042460/1887-09-25/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1886&index=1&rows=20&words=bark+Napoleon&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1888&proxtext=%22bark+Napoleon%22&y=8&x=18&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P8tw0EfkrQU/UsB-SeKeqzI/AAAAAAAACzE/uEeZDTUgi_A/w321-h338-no/bark+Napoleon+1.GIF)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Nv_SgWrb0cw/UsB-SjUy0MI/AAAAAAAACzM/PIJuVzzVmGs/w301-h503-no/bark+Napoleon+2.GIF)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6zymKCRCkx4/UsB-SkyQNxI/AAAAAAAACzQ/ZmFe4M7I_lc/w324-h483-no/bark+Napoleon+3.GIF)
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Perhaps if you use this as a starting point?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D11FC3A5D10738DDDA10894D0405B8584F0D3
:-\
I don't seem to have to purchase anything to use it ???
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I went to look, because I'd run into that NY Times expiration date
and purchase price a long time ago, and only vaguely remembered running
into the limits. I check their FAQ on archive use
(http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/search/archives/archives.html#archivesq03).
What I said is absolutely true for articles from 1923 and later.
The pre-1923 articles are different. I don't know if the
expiration date applies or not.
3. What does it cost to purchase an article from the New York Times Archive?
Archive pricing differs for digital subscribers and nonsubscribers.
Digital Subscribers:
1923-1986: Your
digital subscription includes 100 archive articles every four weeks in
this date range (from January 1, 1923 through December 31, 1986). After
you've reached the 100-article limit for the month, articles from 1923
through 1986 are $3.95 each.
Pre-1923 and post-1986: Articles
published before January 1, 1923 or after December 31, 1986 are free
with your digital subscription and are not limited in any way.
Nonsubscribers:
1923-1986: Articles in this date range (from January 1, 1923 through December 31, 1986) are available for purchase at $3.95 each.
Pre-1923 and post-1986: Articles published before January 1, 1923 or after December 31, 1986 are free, but they count toward your monthly limit.
5. How long can I access an article that I purchased in the Article Archive?
Articles you have purchased are available for 90 days from the purchase date.
Please
review your Purchase History for details on your purchased articles.
All NYTimes.com digital products that are still available can be
accessed from your Purchase History in the My Account area.
6. Can I save articles that I have purchased from the Article Archive?
You
may save articles from our Article Archive for personal use. Copying or
storing any article for other than personal, noncommercial use requires
permission from The New York Times.
Again,
on the 'save and use' questions, I can't find whether that applies or
not to pre-1923 articles. I really don't know. I do know
that 1923 is the starting date for active US copyrights. Nor do I
know if putting them in Gordon's permanent ship pages counts as
'personal, noncommercial use'; the forum is personal and noncommercial,
that doesn't worry me. :-\
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Messy :P
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D11FC3A5D10738DDDA10894D0405B8584F0D3 comes up in a google search.
Also, they talk about articles rather than links - although I don't know how much difference that makes ???
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I really, really don't know where they stand on the pre-1923 stuff,
they truly do not say. Maybe we should ask Gordon, since it is his
pages I'm worrying about?
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;D
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Janet,
Thanks for finding those other articles, that was the kind
of background info I was after especially with such a long time between
the loss of the ship and the rescue.
Janet.
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The crew of the Napoleon was in the worst straits. May they all rest in peace.
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SemanticTourist
welcome to the top 12 !
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jil passes the 4000 mark!
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SemanticTourist passes the 500 mark!
WOW!
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25th August 1887 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol066/vol066_104_1.jpg
At
8.30am stopped and sent 1st Lieut Hamlet to board Am. sch. "Allie J.
Algar" of Seattle. As she had fresh seal skins on board she was seized,
her papers taken from her and taken in charge of by 1st Lieut Hamlet.
Sighted a schooner bearing SE by E and steered for her. At 10am boared
Br. sch. "Ada" of Shanghai seized her with 1800 skins and 30 dead seals
on board, leaving 3rd Lieut Kennedy in charge of her.
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26th August 1887 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol066/vol066_105_1.jpg
Delivered Frank Fuller, the murderer of Bishop Seghers and George Seneta the witness to the custody of the US Marshal.
:o
There are some details in the Wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_John_Seghers) for the Bishop.
Also - http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=5bd3870e-7b88-48f0-97b1-3f0b3d94b652
Some
more details in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly
(http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40488544?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103280063173)
- alothough it looks like you need to sign in to read it all or pay for
download.
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(spelled Alger in these two - found Algar elsewhere)
SEIZED SEALERS: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18870917.2.42.1#
mentions "Allie J. Algar" and "Ada"
The Coast Guard Expands, 1865-1915: New Roles, New Frontiers:
http://books.google.fr/books?id=QH07J5CxhtQC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=sealer+Ada+algar+1887&source=bl&ots=H530cXNyAp&sig=QNkCynfZQNtMLh7h4fw312bRZh8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ywbEUuGCDMPP0AXotYGgCg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
This also mentions J. B. Vincent of Napolean !
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A version of the story of the bishop's murder:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r9bCqNyLt1U/UsQK9dLFxaI/AAAAAAAAC08/ylFbQhOZdJk/w291-h426-no/bishop+seghers+1.GIF)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-StRUPNxBO88/UsQK9RyeOXI/AAAAAAAAC1A/gmHGbOwc-vY/w290-h407-no/bishop+seghers+2.GIF)
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jil passes the 5000 mark!
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Thank you from Pioneer - on 24th September 1923, you sent your
cutter to rescue our broken down motor sailor. Nice when the
stories mesh like this!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USCS%20Pioneer/Book%206%20-%20July-September,%201923/IMG_8351_1.jpg
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Thank
you from Pioneer - on 24th September 1923, you sent your cutter to
rescue our broken down motor sailor. Nice when the stories mesh
like this!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USCS%20Pioneer/Book%206%20-%20July-September,%201923/IMG_8351_1.jpg
Something to look forward to! I'm in 1888 at the moment, so it may take a while :P
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25th August 1888, best wishes from Rush :) -
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol067/vol067_100_1.jpg
The "Rush" signalled "J.C.S.W" - "Wish you a pleasant voyage"
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jil passes the 6000 mark!
;D
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24th June 1889 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol067A/vol067A_021_1.jpg
8am
to merid: At request of Captain Tucker, master of whaling bark
"Sagoda", stoved by ice, sent an officer and carpenter on board to
examine into the extent of her injuries.
Merid to 4pm: Captain
Tucker of bark "Sagoda" requested assistance as his men refused duty.
Put thirteen of the crew who refused to turn to in double irons. The
rest of the crew went to work. [well you would wouldn't you!]
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It would be an incentive ;D
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It is, I think, whaling bark "Lagoda" - compare with "Light ESE" at
start of that paragraph. And if that is true, this was her last
year in the arctic, and her 3rd year under a new owner trying to make
whaling work for him after the market at home had started to fail.
The New Bedford Museum gave her a full page on their site, and built a
half scale model.
http://www.whalingmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/current/lagoda
And this site has the list of her crew for that last voyage.
http://library.mysticseaport.org/exhibits/SFVoyage.cfm?Voyagenumber=99
(http://www.whalingmuseum.org/sites/default/files/images/Exhibit/Lagoda_Center_Panel_web.jpg)
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gastcra (Craig)
Welcome to the top 12 !
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lollia paolina passes the 50,000 mark!
congratulations to her keyboard(s) ;)
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 500 mark!
gastcra (Craig) passes the 1000 mark!
:o :o :o
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I owe my quick progress to autohotkey and the fact that pressure and
temperatures are recorded only on even hours. :) That makes about
5 or 6 keystrokes for the odd hours in many cases.
Don't tell anyone or we'll be swamped ;D
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The BEAR hard at work assisting the SS Victoria in June 1918. The
black gang must be pouring (shoveling?) it on to make that smoke. Now I
think you'd have to go some to find sea ice like this in the Bering Sea
in June.
http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/6371/rec/7
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It didn't appear to be cold, at least, judging by the way people were dressed.
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If you want to know the time ask a US Revenue Cutter ;)
11.30 stopped engine - "hove to" to give chronometer time to whaling bark "Jas. Allen".
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol067A/vol067A_076_1.jpg
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They must have had an appointment with a whale. They are notorious for not being on time. :D
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 1500 mark!
gastcra (Craig) passes the 2000 mark!
;D
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There's no holding me back ;D Love that Bear!
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The barometer dropped to 28.64 but the wind speed never exceeded 6. This seems rather common in the north.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol067A/vol067A_141_0.jpg
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I don't think they get a whole lot of tropical hot water feeding energy into their major storms.
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 2500 mark!
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I don't think they get a whole lot of tropical hot water feeding energy into their major storms.
That
sounds reasonable, Janet, but this site says that the wind strength is
mainly a function of gravity and pressure gradient:
http://geography.about.com/od/climate/a/windpressure.htm This answer
doesn't seem complete, though, because we know that hurricanes require
warm ocean temperatures (which is your point).
The Pressure Gradient Force and Other Effects on Wind
Within
the atmosphere, there are several forces that impact the speed and
direction of winds. The most important though is the Earth?s
gravitational force. As gravity compresses the Earth?s atmosphere, it
creates air pressure- the driving force of wind. Without gravity, there
would be no atmosphere or air pressure and thus, no wind.
The
force actually responsible for causing the movement of air though is the
pressure gradient force. Differences in air pressure and the pressure
gradient force are caused by the unequal heating of the Earth?s surface
when incoming solar radiation concentrates at the equator. Because of
the energy surplus at low latitudes for example, the air there is warmer
than that at the poles. Warm air is less dense and has a lower
barometric pressure than the cold air at high latitudes. These
differences in barometric pressure are what create the pressure gradient
force and wind as air constantly moves between areas of high and low
pressure.
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Armament page from front of log starting May 1890 - this is the first time I've seen this filled in
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_005_0.jpg
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Interesting that they are using shrapnel charges. Intended to
scare off large herds of something big? They are clearly not a
warship but expected to encounter danger.
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1890 and 1891 were the most dangerous peak of the Bering Sea
controversy with Great Britain. It was apparently known that the Royal
Navy was authorized to use force in 1890, which I imagine might explain
the additional ammunition. In 1891 large thing that needed scaring off
was the HMS Pheasant, HMS Nymphe, and HMS Porpoise...
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Oh, My. I'm still learning things on this project, I thought our last fight with Britain was 1812.
I wonder if we will get to transcribe any part of this mess? It would be interesting.
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Thanks, Kevin!
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That is interesting, and I just thought that they hadn't bothered to write down what armament they had with them in previous years!
Also, I feel the need to apologise for any unpleasantness caused by Great Britain. :-[
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:-*
Everyone has caused unpleasantness at one time or another - and sometimes with the best of intentions. :(
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It is interesting reading in the newspapers, but modern apologies
aren't really needed. The arbitration did indeed avoid anything
like a shooting war - thank goodness.
Interesting write-up of the heating up of tensions, too long to insert screencaps.
Los
Angeles herald., July 09, 1890, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1890-07-09/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1890&index=4&rows=20&words=BERING+Bering+British+BRITISH+sea+SEA&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1891&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British&y=17&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
Los
Angeles herald., July 24, 1890, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1890-07-24/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1890&index=13&rows=20&words=Bering+British+sea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1891&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British&y=17&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
Los
Angeles herald., January 06, 1891, Page 5, Image 5
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1891-01-06/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1890&index=6&rows=20&words=Bering+British+BRITISH+sea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1891&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British&y=17&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
Los
Angeles herald., June 02, 1891, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1891-06-02/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1890&index=5&rows=20&words=Bering+British+Sea+sea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1891&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British&y=17&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
Los
Angeles herald., October 06, 1891, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1891-10-06/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1890&index=17&rows=20&words=Bering+British+Sea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1891&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British&y=17&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2)
Los
Angeles herald., March 28, 1892, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025968/1892-03-28/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1891&index=6&rows=20&words=Bering+British+sea&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1893&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British%E2%80%9D&y=13&x=18&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
The
herald [microform]., June 03, 1893, Image 1
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042461/1893-06-03/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1891&index=2&rows=20&words=BERING+British+SEA&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1893&proxtext=%22Bering+Sea%22+British%E2%80%9D&y=13&x=18&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2)
More to be found by searching http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ for "Bering Sea" "British" in 1890-93
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Distributed
presents to Woncheat Toiack and the father of Outonrack and mother of
Yardgidigan (Indians named by J.B. Vincent as especially
instrumental in his preservation) and to twenty-five (25) other Deermen
and Indians of the vicinity. Crew handling presents as required
Cape Nararin, Siberia, 24/06/1890
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_059_1.jpg
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2nd August 1890 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_100_1.jpg
Received
on board with their effects the following persons, ten(10) in number,
constituting the crew of the Bark "Thomas Pope" dismasted off Point Hope
on the 28th ultimo taken off by Stmr "Wm. Lewis" and transferred to
Bear as shipwrecked mariners, the Lewis having no accommodation for
them: John D. Silva, mate, Samual Purdy, 2d mate, James Dario, Cabin
boy; George Youle, John Reynolds, John Holmberg, A. Alexanderson, Jas.
Lawson, E. Silva, and C. Jones seaman.
There's a brief mention of
the incident in the Daily Alta
(http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18900917.2.88#). Although
the date doesn't match.
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The aftermath of this wreck:
The morning call., September 17,
1890, Page 8, Image 8
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1890-09-17/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1890&index=4&rows=20&words=Pope+Thomas&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1890&proxtext=%22Thomas+Pope%22+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2UPov9A7WCA/UvFFmj0pQfI/AAAAAAAADMs/eBLgC4l0mzc/w323-h432-no/The+morning+call.%252C+September+17%252C+1890%252C+Page+8%252C+Image+8+a.JPG)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hOQztWRI_0U/UvFFqh9QA6I/AAAAAAAADM4/tsqDpta7blY/w322-h488-no/The+morning+call.%252C+September+17%252C+1890%252C+Page+8%252C+Image+8+b.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VQtgb78WRQI/UvFFuyicJdI/AAAAAAAADNE/FHRL6TSVL7A/w323-h184-no/The+morning+call.%252C+September+17%252C+1890%252C+Page+8%252C+Image+8+c.JPG)
The
morning call., November 26, 1890, Page 3, Image 3
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1890-11-26/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1890&index=1&rows=20&words=Pope+POPE+THOMAS+Thomas&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1890&proxtext=%22Thomas+Pope%22+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hCTL_k_Z6vk/UvFFy6K_1vI/AAAAAAAADNM/v49-ZeCjpKo/w280-h531-no/The+morning+call.%252C+November+26%252C+1890%252C+Page+3%252C+Image+3.JPG)
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Something very fishy about that ::)
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Yeah, how come they're recording something on August 2 1890 that supposedly happened on August 27?
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Very odd. I assumed the newspaper article I found had just got the
month wrong (having double checked the log page to make sure I wasn't
going mad!).
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$500 for a cargo, even if salvage, supposedly worth $35,000 to $40,000 seems highly questionable to me :-\
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Those 2 captains were really greasing each other under the table,
and making everyone start looking for the money trail 3 weeks too
late. EVERY newspaper covering the story has the date wrong, and
we know the hard way that our log keepers do not have access to a
TARDIS. Chicagoans are unfortunately very experienced at spotting
grift when it happens. A $40,000 cargo gone? ???
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jil passes the 7000 mark!
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 3000 mark!
gastcra (Craig) passes the 4000 mark!
:o
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Still goes on...I wonder how these two cases would compare in real (time adjusted) dollars?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_%28supertanker%29
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Not in the same class at all - modern oil tankers have much larger
holds, and the cargo of the supertanker Salem was claimed to insurance
for $56.3 million USD (and sold by its captain earlier for $43
million).
But this was really big felony theft. According to this historical conversion site
(http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/Documents/dollar/), a 1890-USD would be
worth $24.137 2010-USD. So that $40,000 cargo that vanished a
month before the supposed date of the wreck would be worth $965,480 -
nearly a million in 2010. Serious crooks running these whalers.
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Note. By order of the Commanding officer, 3d Lieut F.A. Dimock is,
for the purpose of acquiring practical experience made navigating
officer from date; he exchanging duties with 2d Lieut J.H. Quiman.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_150_1.jpg
I'm
really hoping that Mr. Dimock has better hand-writing than Mr. Quiman
but also slightly nervous of looking at the next page and finding it's
worse!
... well that was an anti-climax - nothing happened - same hand-writing.
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Not as worrying as if you were on the ship and out of sight of land ;D
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The handwriting appears to be the writer or clerk that is copying
the rough log into the 'clean' log. But I must assume the senior
officers were allergic enuf to the idea of getting lost at sea that all
of Mr. Dimock's calculations were quietly double checked. I hope.
::)
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Don't worry, there's always an island somewhere near where they are ;D
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This time the wind force is consistent with the low pressure readings
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_167_0.jpg
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I have begun transcribing all the odd hours and then all the even
hours. I use a different autohotkey macro for each group because temps
and pressure are not recorded for odd hours. I sometimes get confused
when I transcribe in chronological order and press the wrong control
key. (My mindfulness is not always what it should be ;D)
Another
advantage of doing this is that all the temperature data in the sidebar
can be viewed at once so it's easier to spot typos.
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Good idea!
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 5000 mark!
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October 20, 1890 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_180_0.jpg
Provisions rec'd from stmr "Bertha" [lbs]
Beef salt 400 Currants 50
Beef canned 240 Apples 50
Pork 600 Onions 300
Flour 850 Mustand 8
Bread 382 Beans 90 qts
Sugar 303 Molasses 20 qts
Coffee 65
Butter 240
Tomatoes 240
Potatoes 1800
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October 20, 1890 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_180_1.jpg
Commanding
officer informed Captain Glover, commanding steamer "Bertha" that the
"Bear" would execute the order of the Department relative to the
protection of the Seal Islands, enabling Captain Glover, to return the
"Bertha" to San Francisco and terminate the charter. Transferred to
Stmr. "Bertha" for passage down the survivors of wreck of bark "Thos
Pope", invalids, deserters and others of the "Bear" for passage as
follows: Jas. Saunders, James Greg, John Drarto?, E.J. Taylor, George
Harris, E. Glover. A. Alexanderson, L.H. Daniels, R. Dupires?, Geo.
Yorke, J. Price, Robert Bennett.
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St. Paul Island, 23/10/1890
At
9:30 received signals from shore that nearly every one on the Island
was sick and requesting that a boat be sent. Dispatched boat with
Lieutenant and surgeon. At 11:30 officers returned and reported majority
of natives suffering from "La Grippe", four deaths having occurred
within the week. Learned from Special Treasury Agent Murray and
residents, that no sealing schooners or marauders had been seen; that an
efficient watch was kept over the rookeries exposed to raids that
boisterous weather, mainly westerly had been experienced during the
"Bear's" absence and that the bull seals and many others were leaving
the Island.
Comd'g
officer offered portion of crew to assist in guarding Island, which
assistance was refused as unneeded by Agent Murray, he stating that with
his available force he was well able to protect rookeries from being
raided at this season.
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St. Paul Island 8 November 1890 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol068/vol068_203_1.jpg
Special
Treasury Agent Murray visited vessel (this being the first day since
November 2 when landing was practicable with respect to surf) and
reported no vessels sighted and health of natives much improved.
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Good work, Bear!
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 6000 mark!
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jil passes the 8000 mark!
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Man from shore informed Comdg Officer that John Smith, witness in Hemmingway murder case, had gone to Pirate Cove
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_031_1.jpg
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Stopped
off Pirate Cove and sent boat with officers and Deputy Marshall. 3.20
boat returned bringing JC Smith for transportation to Sitka as witness
in Hemmingway murder case.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_032_1.jpg
sent
boat ashore with District Atty Johnson, Depy Marshall Kostronmitinoff
and Lieut. Broadbent to arrest Russian Pete and secure witnesses in
Miller murder case. 7.10, boat returned with officers and Russian
Pete
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I wonder if "Russian Pete" was this guys alias, or if it was just Pyotr from Irkutsk.
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Or perhaps Pytor from Popoff. I think Popoff Pete is pretty catchy, but it has less scope ;D
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 7000 mark!
Look out Silvia ;D
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Shhh. I want to sneak up on her ;D
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How likely is this :o ???
4 to 8 AM schooner
Umbria of Shellburn NS near Sitka Alaska in May of 1891! (Or does NS
mean something else than Nova Scotia?)
4:15 spoke schooner Umbria of Shellburn NS, Sealing, had taken 215 to date.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_044_1.jpg
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http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ship-registration/001093-110.01-e.php?interval=20&q1=um*&q2=&q3=&q4=&q5=&q6=
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/ship-registration/001093-110.01-e.php?interval=20&q1=um*&q2=&q3=&q4=&q5=&q6=)
put in url code to fix link JJ ;)
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That's a long way to go to catch seals. No Panama Canal in 1891 and no North West Passage (without an icebreaker)
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May 29 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_061_1.jpg
Merid
to 4pm: Received on board, by authority of Dept., six men (Prof I.C.
Russell's party) and outfits, also one boat. Names of party as follows:
Thomas Storey?, Thomas White, J.H. Crumback, Neil McCarty, W.C. Moore
and Frank C. Warner. Served rations for party.
8pm to mid: US Deputy Commissioner L.H. Tarpley and wife came on board for transportation to Unalaska, by authority of Dept.
The Prof was presumably Israel Cook Russell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Russell)
While
confirming the Commisioner's name I found a newspaper article that said
he married Bessie Bugbee in 1891 so this could be the honeymoon! (The
newspaper requires a subscription to see the article but there was
enough info in the search results). I also found mention of Bessie in
the inventory of Capt. Healy's papers
(http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf009n979c/entire_text/)
which includes 'a watercolor drawing of an Alaskan house by Bessie E.
(Bugbee) Tarpley'
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;D
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6th June 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_070_1.jpg
9.25
Stopped off Guyot Glacier, Icy Bay, Alaska. Sent Liet. Jarvis in 2d
Cutter to see if a landing could be made on the beach with safety.
9.50 Lieut. Jarvis returned and reported that a landing could be made with ease.
10.
Sent Lieut. Jarvis in charge of second cutter and boats crew of five
men, with three of Prof. Russell's party - Thos. Storny, Thomas White,
and Neil McCarty - and a portion of the outfits of the party, to the
beach, with orders to attempt no landing unless deemed perfectly safe.
10.15
Sent third cutter, with a crew of five men in charge of Lieut. Robinson
with W.C. Moore of Prof. Russel's party, and a portion of outfits of
same, to the beach, with same orders on Lieut. Jarvis had, to attempt no
landing unless deemed perfectly safe.
10.30 sent first cutter in
charge Lieut. Broadbent with J.~. Crumbach of Prof. Russel's party with
portion of outfits and with same orders.
11.15 Lieut. Broadbent
returned without having attempting to land, and reported that but one
boat could be seen on the beach, that there were but ten men seen on the
beach, who warned him by shouts and gestures not to land. Took outfits
out of boat and sent Lieut. McConnell to go as near the beach as
possible with safety, but not to land unless ease of success.
Names
of Lieut. Jarvis boats crew: Wm Smith, coxswain, Wm Mackay, Samual
Rainsford, C. Henry and Wm Robinson seamen. Names of Lieut. Robinsons
boats crews: James Hasler, coxswain, N.J. Wright, H.Smith, J.J. Andersen
and A.Nelson, seamen.
12.20 Lieut. McConnell returned and reported that men on the beach warned him by shouts and gestures not to land.
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7th June 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_071_1.jpg
7.15
sent 1st cutter in charge of an officer to examine condition of beach.
Boat arrived near line of breakers and the party on shore warned the
officer not to land, making gestures with hands and coats to keep away.
1st cutter returned.
At 8 sent 1st cutter with Lieuts. McConnell and Broadbent to try to open communications with party on shore.
10.15
boat returned and reported the following information from Lieut.
Jarvis: that Lieut. Robinson, coxswain Hassler, seamen J.J. Andersen, H.
Smith and A. Nelson and H.C. Moore of Prof. Russell's party were lost
in attempting to land, that the bodies of Lieut. Robinson and seaman
Anderson had been found; that the boats were all right. Instructed
Lieut. Jarvis by signal to bury dead except Lieut. Robinson and to bring
that body with him; to bring his men on board, the explorers to remain
on shore and follow the beach east. Second and third cutters on board at
end of watch.
1.30 Lt. Jarvis returned with 2d and 3d cutter and
the body of Lt. Robinson. It was slack water, high tide and Lt. Jarvis
reported that the surf at that time was not bad, and that it was safe to
land.
2. sent Lieut. McConnell in charge of 3d cutter, to land
supplies etc. Second and third cutters returned having landed safely and
discharged. Put supplies etc. in boats and sent them back to land if
safe, if not, to return. Frank C. Warner of survey party, in 3d cutter.
Third cutter capsized in surf and remained on beach, having broken
rowlock of steering oar. Second cutter returned having safely landed
cargo. Sent her to beach with supplies etc. and Prof Russell. When near
the beach, the boat was warned by the party on the beach not to land, as
the tide having ebbed, the surf was increasing. 2d cutter returned
without attempting to land. Dr. S.J. Call preparing the body of Lieut.
Robinson for preservation. Expended one can (45lbs) pemmican for Prof.
Russell party.
May they all rest in peace.
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The lieutenant was Leonidas L. Robinson.
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8th June 1891 http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_072_1.jpg
2:15
party on shore signaled by waving a lighted brand and firing a gun.
2.30 sent second cutter in charge of an officer to land supplies on the
beach if it could be done with safety and without damage to supplies.
2.45 Lieut. McConnell with boat's crew returned. 3 second cutter
returned. 3.15 sent her ashore again in charge of an officer to land
Prof. Russell and remainder of supplies and outfits of his party. 3.55
second cutter returned having safely landed Prof. Russell and remainder
of his supplies. etc.
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I was searching for Cape Metchkin, Siberia, and I came across this interesting bit of background information.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23324705?uid=3739808&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103443698377
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8)
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I wondered how that had been pulled off, because I didn't believe
Healey and the Bear has extra funds for buying herds. Now I know -
they were working in concert with civilians who were willing to do
something about the problem, but lacked transportation.
Cool. :)
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Interesting find, Craig. They did mention loading some trade goods
for buying reindeer recently. I see if I can find the page.
Got it - May 28 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_060_1.jpg
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9.
Lieut. Jarvis accompanied by Dr. Sheldon Jackson went ashore in 2'd
cutter to get information from natives in regard to purchase of
reindeer.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_113_1.jpg
I didn't even know he was on board. I wasn't paying enough attention.
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The man himself 8)
I don't remember seeing his name mentioned either, so he must have sneaked on board.
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Lots of ice mentions for Kevin:
Saw
a number of whaling vessels in the vicinity, all of which were unable
to get to Pt. Barrow, all progress having been stopped on account of
heavy ice.
This is August 8.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_133_1.jpg
I'm going half speed due to heavy ice mentions ;D
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J.M.
Kelly, agent of Pacific Whaling station came on board, received two
sacks of mail for station and left vessel. He reported ice very bad
between here and Pt. Barrow, and very improbable that any vessel could
reach that point.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_139_1.jpg
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Just came across his when I was looking for something else:
Daily Alta California, Volume 81, Number 168, 15 December 1889
PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN HEALY. (http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18891215.2.7#)
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Nice!
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Back in the days when people sometimes said good things about their government. ;D
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From then until the present, there are very good people serving the
public who deserve that praise, whatever is thought about the
gov't. Starting with the special teachers who teach joy of
learning as well as what is in the textbooks. And including
scientists like Kevin.
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As an ex-government employee, I heartily agree. :)
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August 28 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_154_1.jpg
1.30
Lieut. Jarvis returned in launch with four of the reindeer purchased
yesterday. Hoisted them on board, secured boats, cleared up decks etc.
Carpenter employed building stalls for reindeer on main deck. The four
reindeer were taken on board as an experiment more could have been
purchased if desired.
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Sept 3, 1891 http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_160_1.jpg
brought
off flour and tea purchased by Captain Healy and officers of vessel to
distribute to natives of King's Island, who are reported to be in danger
of starving. Brought on board a supply of moss for reindeer.
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After thinking that it would be great to see a photo of them
hoisting the reindeer on board, a bit of searching led to 'The arctic
adventures of Thetis
(http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic30-1-2.pdf)' which actually
mentions Bear quite a lot as well. And does indeed include a photo of a
dangling reindeer (page 9) - it's not a great photo but still.
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Good find, Jil. 8) It's a wonder the reindeer didn't die of fright.
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Distributed to the natives of King's Island, who were reported in
danger of starvation, 100 sacks of flour and one chest of tea, purchased
at St. Michaels; 9 boxes of bread (reindeer stores purchased of Dr.
Sheldon Jackson,; and 7 barrels of flour and 6 barrels of bread, of the
Pt. Barrow supplies (to be returned to the government by the officers of
the vessel, J.E. McGrath, N.S.C.G Survey, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_163_1.jpg
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 8000 mark!
and
gastcra (Craig) passes the 9000 mark!
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jil passes the 9000 mark!
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21 Sept 1891 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_178_1.jpg
Put
nine (9) reindeer ashore on Amaknak Island and seven (7) on Unalaska
Island, the former in charge of US Deputy Marshal Anthony and the latter
in charge of AC Co. Sent effects of McGrath's C & G Survey party
and of Dr. Sheldon Jackson aboard US Revenue Str. "Rush". Received from
Comd'g Officer of US Rev Str. "Rush" list of sailing vessel boarded
during the season by the Governement fleet. Sent mail aboard US Rev Str.
"Rush". Comd'g Officer made official call aboard guard ship "Alki?".
Officer from str. "Alki" visited the vessel. John Cula? of Pt. Barrow
Refuge Station; U.E. Jaggart, destitute miner; Dr. Sheldon Jackson; and
J.E. McGrath, W.W. Davis, Wm. Dukes, C. F. Haglund, R.C. Cason, T.H.
Beaumont, John Lines and James McLarty? of US C & G party left
vessel. Received on board the following seamen transferred from Rev.
Str. "Rush" and entered them on the muster roll of this vessel: W.A.
Jolliff, A.E. Rasmussen, G.A. Andersen and J.W. Blaman?.
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Been away from the Bear for some time.
I seem to be having
problems entering the lat/long. After entering it it hangs up and will
not do anything when I click OK. (tried both ways N before and N after)
Do you want N before as in the log or after the lat/long?
Only after clicking close can I get it to close.
This was not what happened on the Concord.
What is different on the Bear?
Problem fixed, I cleared the cache and it seemed to fix it.
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Abstract for Sept 1891.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_188_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol069/vol069_188_1.jpg)
Transcribe page went from 30 Sept 1891 to first two scan setup pages of new log book 01 Nov 1891.
Who nicked October?
Next page was scan setup 10/1891 to 12/1891, ???
I seem to have found Oct.
Whose idea was it to do the Bear (34f snow and hail) after a holiday on the Concord in Honolulu 70s.
Oh! it was mine. :-[
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Been away from the Bear for some time.
I
seem to be having problems entering the lat/long. After entering it it
hangs up and will not do anything when I click OK. (tried both ways N
before and N after) Do you want N before as in the log or after the
lat/long?
Only after clicking close can I get it to close.
This was not what happened on the Concord.
What is different on the Bear?
I am not seeing any problem. What numbers are you trying to enter?
The lat/long should be entered as in the log.
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OK
After over a year of entering say 34 45 N, 166 23 W I go on to N 34 45, W 166 23. It's just a shock to the fingers. :-[
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Stuart, the first two transcriptions of the Bear have been completed
(at least up to where DenisO has reached). Jil and I are doing the
third but we don't trip over each other because she doesn't begin until I
end. There is no problem you joining us but we risk two of us doing the
same pages (i.e. 4 transcriptions) unless we coordinate our times. I
usually begin about 11 AM GMT and stop about 3 PM GMT. Jil begins
sometime after that.
Regarding Oct-Dec 1891, Sylvia posted the following:
USRS Bear 1891:
Log book commencing October 1st 1891 at Sea, Bering Sea, ending December 12th, 1891, at San Francisco, Cal
Have been scanned twice because there are two different copies of that log book.
Here are some "sample pages"
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_003_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_007_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_006_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_071_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_069_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_081_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_083_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070A/vol070A_072_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_070_0.jpg
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Reading the Bear thread from last March, it appears the duplicate
log book mentioned above was removed. Strange that you encountered the
Nov 1 page following Sept 30.
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It sounds like they may have left one page :-\
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That's what I was thinking.
It appears that Stuart has gone
to bed by now so it looks like the three of us won't interfere with each
other's transcribing. We could probably even squeeze in a 4th
transcriber living somewhere near Sochi (but no medals) ;D
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The log keeper is obviously showing a range for the wind strength on
this page, even though the dash sometimes looks like a decimal point.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_020_0.jpg
It is less obvious on the previous page, where it looks like 8.7 rather than 8-7
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_019_0.jpg
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All this activity has got us storming along to 49% complete. :)
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Yes! 8)
Now we need someone from GTM +5 and GTM -8 to come on board so we can have 24-hour transcription.
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My usual time is in the region of 8PM GMT till 5AM GMT if that helps. (7AM - 4PM my time)
(I can shape my times to suit)
I am GMT +11 and do OW during the day.
I have used a decimal for ALL of the wind readings since starting OW.
When
I first started OW the readings kept changing (decimal and dash) I was
told to use decimal and have done ever since for every vessel.
Nov 7 1891 first page up today.
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I try to transcribe it as written. If it is not clear, I use the context to guess if it is a decimal point or a dash.
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I confuses me when they use BOTH . and - in the same column on the same page so I standardize with the . as instructed many years ago.
They are experiencing some strong winds at the moment. (11)
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Perhaps a good rule of thumb sometimes, Stuart, but in this case a
decimal doesn't make sense. If you do a few pages you will see that it
must be a dash. If he were recording decimals you wouldn't see so many
entries without them. But don't let me influence you ;D
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Craig.
What is the place I am at.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_050_0.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol070/vol070_050_0.jpg)
Looks like St Genge Island.
How do my transcribe times line up for you and Jil?
I will use a dash from now on.
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That's St. George Island, Stuart. They have been running back and
forth between there and St. Paul Island and other small islands (North
of the Aleutians). Earlier on they were helping to transport caribou
from Siberia to Alaska. I think the may be finished that for the year.
I usually begin about 11 AM GMT and stop about 3 PM GMT. Jil begins sometime after that.
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The next log book doesn't follow the usual format. (I think Sylvia
has mentioned this somewhere else but not in this thread). There are no
weather report pages and from what I have seen the ship doesn't appear
to leave San Francisco. The log book begins in 1892 and goes up to 1894
but there are big gaps. I think this is where Sylvia asked whether we
could put the written weather remarks in the Weather tab, and the answer
was yes. I did the same thing for the Jamestown 1844 when it was in
port. The convention is to enter the time as the end of the watch.
In
the beginning, at least, there are only three watches recorded per day.
Pressure and (what looks like air) temperature is recorded in the left
margin at midnight and noon. Given the long duration of each "watch"
there can be more than one weather condition. For example, at 4 PM to
Mid: "Calm, cloudy. Latter part rainy". Should we enter the complete
phrase, or only "rainy" since we give the time as "Mid" ???
So
on the following page I propose putting the Noon pressure and
temperature in the 8 AM to 4 PM watch and the midnight pressure and
temperature in the 4 PM to midnight watch.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_003_0.jpg
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If the pressures are in the margin at specific times, and not part
of the watch write-up, shouldn't the numbers be listed as noon and
midnight? Just asking.
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It is in this topic: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3096.msg67982#msg67982
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Thanks, Randi.
If we did make separate entries for the pressures for noon and midnight, we would have two entries for midnight, Janet.
I am going to type both weather conditions rather than the last, unless I hear otherwise.
Can we omit typing San Francisco twice on the same page?
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Can we omit typing San Francisco twice on the same page?
Your
choice on this one. It's not as if they are going anywhere.
Though it would be nice to know where they are more exactly - SF Bay is
humongous.
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Do you have their phone number? ;D
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Nope, unfortunately. I haven't found a TARDIS to borrow yet. :D
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 10,000 mark!
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pommystuart (Pommy Stuart) passes the 5000 mark!
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When we have something like the following: "First part light SW breeze; Latter part moderate SE gale"
I am wondering whether it might be better to type the whole phrase into
one wind direction box and let the future users deal with it. In the
Jamestown 1844 I used to make two entries when there was a first
part/last part in a watch but the hour you record for the first half is
arbitrary and it takes more time.
In other cases he has, for example, "Calm to light W'ly breeze".
I have been putting "W'ly in the wind direction and "Calm to light
breeze" in the wind force but since Philip isn't even using this why not
just type the whole phrase verbatim into one of the boxes (direction or
force) and the future users can treat it however they want. Perhaps
Philip can advise us on this?
And there is the question of the
pressure and temperature recorded in the margin. For the "4 PM to
midnight" watch it makes sense to put the midnight pressure and temp in
the hour "midnight". But for the noon pressure and temperature does he
want an extra hour for this or can we slip it in with the "8 AM to 4 PM"
watch, which is identified by "4 PM".
Or do we just do whatever we think best given that DennisO and Sylvia have already transcribed this log book?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_012_1.jpg
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When we have something like the following: "First part light SW breeze; Latter part moderate SE gale"
I am wondering whether it might be better to type the whole phrase into
one wind direction box and let the future users deal with it. In the
Jamestown 1844 I used to make two entries when there was a first
part/last part in a watch but the hour you record for the first half is
arbitrary and it takes more time.
I would just do SE and moderate gale with the end time of the watch
In other cases he has, for example, "Calm to light W'ly breeze".
I have been putting "W'ly in the wind direction and "Calm to light
breeze" in the wind force but since Philip isn't even using this why not
just type the whole phrase verbatim into one of the boxes (direction or
force) and the future users can treat it however they want. Perhaps
Philip can advise us on this?
From some of Philip's comments
(while discussing 'trades'), wind direction should go in the wind
direction box and wind force should go in the wind force box.
And
there is the question of the pressure and temperature recorded in the
margin. For the "4 PM to midnight" watch it makes sense to put the
midnight pressure and temp in the hour "midnight". But for the noon
pressure and temperature does he want an extra hour for this or can we
slip it in with the "8 AM to 4 PM" watch, which is identified by "4 PM".
For the noon pressure and temperature, create a noon entry (in cases where there is not a watch ending at noon).
Or do we just do whatever we think best given that DennisO and Sylvia have already transcribed this log book?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_012_1.jpg
Philip
does want the pressure and temperature, but (as far as I know) wind
direction and force are optional - and were your idea ;)
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I do want to enter it, Randi. I am just thinking out loud about what is the best way to do it.
The
problem in this log book is that the watch is 8 hours long and there
usually different conditions during that period. For cases like that it
may be better to enter the whole expression in one box rather than
trying to split it up as I described above.
Never mind bothering Philip about it. I'll just do what I think is best.
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:)
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Now we have skipped to December 1892 with 6 WRs per log page. Still in San Fran.
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Perhaps Kevin can encourage us while we work our way through the
current Bear log (that Sylvia and DennisO have done without
complaining 8)). I keep wondering what use is the fragmentary data
for San Francisco in the early 1890s. Are there not other sources of
weather data for this area?
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Now we have skipped to December 1892 with 6 WRs per log page. Still in San Fran.
Lucky you, I am still in April 1892. :(
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That must have been a page you left off at. Otherwise, I don't
understand why you wouldn't be up with me. The first two transcriptions
are away ahead of us.
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Craig, I'm also back in April 1892, so I think you must have reached as far as DennisO had got.
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Strange. DennisO has done 38,000 WRs and I have only done 10,000
From April 27 1892 I skipped to December 1892.
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Randi or Janet, any idea why we have been leapfrogging then all of a
sudden we're not? We are still a long way behind the top two
transcribers.
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maybe you are the very first third transcriber?
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So Jil and Stuart would be in the second stream finishing off what
DennisO didn't complete? But I would expect them to be ahead of me
chronologically, then. Perhaps some new log books were inserted that
mixed things up?
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All kinds of different things can happen in what various
transcribers get and do. About the only transcriber who can count
on what they get when is the first one if they stick to it and stay
captain. You can't control this at all, you can only hope for
consecutive feeds.
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If you add the WR's for gastcra through sal42, it comes to very
roughly 38 thousand, so you three may now be the second and third
transcribers.
The logs are usually, but not always, in chronological order.
:-\ :-\ :-\
I get April 27, 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_017_1.jpg,
then two blank page2,
then December 13, 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_019_0.jpg
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Good point, Randi. Collectively, the 10 of us have passed DennisO
(which may be what Jil was suggesting). So perhaps the front runner
becomes second which would mean that Jil and Stuart may still be
leapfrogging the 3rd transcription.
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Good
point, Randi. Collectively, the 10 of us have passed DennisO (which may
be what Jil was suggesting). So perhaps the front runner becomes second
which would mean that Jil and Stuart may still be leapfrogging the 3rd
transcription.
Yes, that's what I meant.
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I'm the slow one in this calculation. Good thinking 8)
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Nothing to stop you transcribing 24 hours a day now! ;)
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That's the spirit! ;D
(I have some doubts about the eventual accuracy, though ;))
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April 24 1892 jumped to Dec 17 1892.
That is a big leapfrog.
NEE DEEP ;D
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Nothing to stop you transcribing 24 hours a day now! ;)
Ha!
I must confess, though, that I am spending a bit more time just to get
finished this log book. I am about half finished and I am hoping the
next one will take us up north again. San Francisco's a nice place to
visit - especially during the gay 90's, but there's a limit.
It think the same thing happens in 1893, Stuart. Suits me fine if the ship was in port all that time.
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What is the code for 'Thick and raining' ?
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I don't think there is one.
If you want to, you can enter "thick and raining" in the weather code box, but you should not try to convert it into a code.
You don't need to enter it unless you really want to.
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OK i will just enter r
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If you are using Firefox you shouldn't have to type too much.
However, when there are too many variations on the same thing I find it
is faster to type the words than look for the right line in the list.
But since you are now doing pages I have already done probably one
transcription of the weather remarks is enough. Philip won't be using
them anyway.
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If you don't want to enter what it actually says, it is probably
better not to enter anything. If you enter r and Craig enters thick and
raining, the entry will probably be ignored.
I am doing the
weather remarks for Jamestown 1844 (as is camiller) because they don't
have that field, but I am not currently doing them anywhere else.
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December 27 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_026_0.jpg
Packing goods for World's Columbian exposition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition)
I wonder what they were sending?
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I wonder ???
April 19 1893 the French Steamer, Duchaffault visits San Francisco and gets a lot of attention
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18930417.2.111
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skipped from May 1 1893 to Nov 13 1893
I had the impression they were preparing for a voyage in April because they loaded trading goods for reindeer.
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I
am doing the weather remarks for Jamestown 1844 (as is camiller)
because they don't have that field, but I am not currently doing them
anywhere else.
I enter full text into the fields instead of changing weather to codes on the Jamestown 1844.
That said, couldn't "thick and raining" be interpreted as 'gloomy', which is code 'g' ? ;D
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I enter full text into the fields instead of changing weather to codes on the Jamestown 1844.
That is the correct procedure.
That said, couldn't "thick and raining" be interpreted as 'gloomy', which is code 'g' ? ;D
But then we are no longer transcribing we are interpreting - maybe incorrectly - and if each person does their own interpretation they may not match.
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You're right, of course. I just really like that there is a
code for 'gloomy'. I use it to justify entering "pleasant" in the
weather code box. At least the scientists know what the
weather is not. :D
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I agree, Carolyn ... unless some log keeper thinks rain is pleasant ;D
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;D And after this winter, Craig, I'm putting snow in the 'gloomy' category, too!
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It's an acquired taste ;D
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Hi Craig.
I see what you mean by suggesting the drop down box's be wider.
Having
to put the entries in full text you can only see the first word of a
compound entry and it takes for ever for the see the rest when you mouse
over.
I have reverted to just typing which is a pity to waste a drop down resource.
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It's an acquired taste ;D
;D
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Been away from the Bear for some time.
I
seem to be having problems entering the lat/long. After entering it it
hangs up and will not do anything when I click OK. (tried both ways N
before and N after) Do you want N before as in the log or after the
lat/long?
Only after clicking close can I get it to close.
This was not what happened on the Concord.
What is different on the Bear?
Problem fixed, I cleared the cache and it seemed to fix it.
It just happened to me when I was trying to add lat/long in edit mode (on Thetis).
But then I tried to add it to another page in edit mode and that worked fine :P
So, there seems to be a problem, but only in certain special cases. Keep an eye out everyone!
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Hi Craig.
I see what you mean by suggesting the drop down box's be wider.
Having
to put the entries in full text you can only see the first word of a
compound entry and it takes for ever for the see the rest when you mouse
over.
I have reverted to just typing which is a pity to waste a drop down resource.
I
still find the Foxfire autocomplete useful more than half the
time, though. When I get the phrase "light variable airs" I type "v" and
it comes to the top. I also delete infrequent phrases that get in the
way. The next log book is closer than it seems. This is a short one.
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Been away from the Bear for some time.
I
seem to be having problems entering the lat/long. After entering it it
hangs up and will not do anything when I click OK. (tried both ways N
before and N after) Do you want N before as in the log or after the
lat/long?
Only after clicking close can I get it to close.
This was not what happened on the Concord.
What is different on the Bear?
Problem fixed, I cleared the cache and it seemed to fix it.
It just happened to me when I was trying to add lat/long in edit mode (on Thetis).
But then I tried to add it to another page in edit mode and that worked fine :P
So, there seems to be a problem, but only in certain special cases. Keep an eye out everyone!
You
are right that it is in special cases, Randi. I have had it on
different ships. If I see that the areas is extra dark I delete one of
them.
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Let's try to figure out the pattern ;)
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That's a real challenge. My guess is that clearing the buffer might
help. I haven't bothered with it because it's not much of a problem once
you know what to expect.
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I didn't clear my buffer, but the problem disappeared - at least for he moment.
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Hmm... perhaps we need Malinquist ;D
C. Y. Malinquist on board experimenting with an invention for scrubbing vessels' bottoms
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_118_0.jpg
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Made it to the new book.
It doubles back to May-November 1893.
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Showing 50% complete - woot!
It's all down hill now - although that sounds a little alarming in a ship. :)
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Yea team! Go for the gold.
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Weather records go back a long way in San Francisco
http://ggweather.com/sf/sites.html
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Hi Craig.
I see what you mean by suggesting the drop down box's be wider.
Having
to put the entries in full text you can only see the first word of a
compound entry and it takes for ever for the see the rest when you mouse
over.
I have reverted to just typing which is a pity to waste a drop down resource.
I
still find the Foxfire autocomplete useful more than half the
time, though. When I get the phrase "light variable airs" I type "v" and
it comes to the top. I also delete infrequent phrases that get in the
way. The next log book is closer than it seems. This is a short one.
I find entries like this a pain.
"Moderate to strong SE gale moderation to a light west breeze."
My drop down only shows Moderate t... and I wait for (ever it seems) for the full text to appear when I mouse over.
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Soon you will be back to the regular format in the next log book - after Feb.10, 1894.
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Oh good, only 11 months to go. ::)
At least they are only 4 to a day at the moment. ;)
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Nope. The book you're on jumps from May to November. The following log book fills in the gap.
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Oooooooooo K. That makes sense. ???
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Stuart,
It looks like the log books weren't always scanned in
chronological order. When I started transcribing Bear it was with the
1894 summer log book, then skipped back to 1886 and until recently the
winter books hadn't been appearing at all.
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Stuart,
It
looks like the log books weren't always scanned in chronological order.
When I started transcribing Bear it was with the 1894 summer log book,
then skipped back to 1886 and until recently the winter books hadn't
been appearing at all.
It's
a matter of preservation. The Archives are making archive-quality
scans for themselves, and shipping them to us to downgrade to JPEG for
our interface. Any and every time they find a book that needs to
be sent to be restored they send to the restoration department first and
then move on to the next good book to be scanned. They don't want
to damage fragile paper even more by scanning it first. They get
scanned whenever the repaired book is given back to them. A
not-uncommon occurrence in books more than a century old that have been
at sea.
Call it a side-effect of preserving history for our children's generations. :)
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Expended 15 extra rations to prepare a nice dinner for the crew on July the Fourth.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_072_1.jpg
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Happy 1894.
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Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Oops.
Mer to 4pm @ 4PM
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_130_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_130_1.jpg)
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I've reached the normal log books again - yeah!!
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:)
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Thanks for telling us - I have set the level back to easy ;)
Maybe you will get some new crew members!
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jil passes the 10,000 mark!
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pommystuart (Pommy Stuart) passes the 6000 mark!
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After
the mature consideration of the report that the whaling steamers Orca,
Thrasher, Beluga and Mary D. Hume were probably in the ice and might be
in danger, the commanding officer decided to return to Point Barrow.
I wonder if "mature consideration" means" will I get into trouble if I just take off and leave them to fend for themselves?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_105_1.jpg
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August 4, 1893
At
8:00 sent officer to consult with the masters of the whaling vessels as
to the condition of the stmrs. Orca, Thrasher, Beluga, and Mary D.
Hume. It was learned that these vessels are in the ice-pack 15miles NNE
from Pt. Barrow and their situation is thought dangerous. The
considerations are such that the steamers can not be reached in order to
render assistance, but in view of the number of lives - about 200 souls
- and the valuable property involved, it is deemed advisable to await
the developments that may be caused by a change of wind.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_106_1.jpg
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Aug. 9 1893
sighted
Str. "Mary D. Hume" steaming to the southward and westward. When she
arrived, boarded her and ascertained that the other vessels were in no
danger, the ice having opened and freed them, and that the "Beluga" and
the "Thrasher" were on their way to an anchorage off the Point
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Whew! ;D
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It appears to be pretty treacherous up there. The previous year the
Bear couldn't make it to Point Barrow because of ice. I can't remember
which month, though. It doesn't seem to deter the whalers.
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http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_020_1.jpg
Discharged John B. Anderson, coxswain, for assaulting the boatswain and continued drunkenness. :o
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Hi Jil.
Just started today on May 30 1893.
At least they can discharge their crew, I was stuck with mine on the Concord.
31 May 'Discovered error of Tea (10) rations in expenditure for the 18th inst and 19th inst.'
Shades of the Boston Tea Party?
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3 July 1893
Expended 15 extra rations to prepare a nice dinner for the crew on July the Fourth.
(Ah, that was nice.) ;)
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Another Birthday for me at sea and they have eaten all the food. ???
No wonder I feel old with all these extra birthdays. :(
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Unusual turn of phrase?
Benjamin Valpy, a meak-minded sailor from ... ect
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_074_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_074_1.jpg)
Merid to 4PM
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weak minded :-\
(see w in first line of Merid to 4PM - "cloudy, with rain"
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Thanks.
Still, 'Weak Minded' is not a nice way to log someone arriving on your ship. I guess it maybe a polite way of saying Mad.
I can understand them entering about the Amputee but ....
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Perhaps they mean not too smart?
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July 9 1893 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_078_1.jpg
12.50 Launch returned with officer and crew, bringing seventeen (17) reindeer
4.30
Officer and boat's crew returned from shore with thirteen (13)
reindeer. Hoisted them aboard and paid the owners in trade goods
7.45 Stopped to pick up some ducks.
I'm
not sure how big the launch is, but I bet it was a little cosy with 17
reindeer in it. And I'm assuming the ducks were for dinner?
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July 10 1893 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_079_1.jpg
Mr
Thomas Lopp, his family, and effects, were received on board for
transporation to Port Clarence Reindeer Station, to take charge of that
establishment. A party of 14 natives was also taken on board for
transportation to Port Clarence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Lopp
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http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_080_1.jpg
The
master of the Berwick, as well as the boarding officer, were under the
impression that the vessel was cruising under license, but a further
examination revealed the fact that the Berwick is a registered vessel.
Although the master violated Section [blank] of the Revised Statutes by
attempting to import the reindeer (cattle) without entering them through
a Custom House. The Commanding Officer, in view of the previously
recorded facts, allowed him the privalege of landing the deer on the
American side at any place other than Government Stations, with the
understanding that they be put on the vessel's manifest and entered at
the nearest custom house as soon as practicable.
I'm not sure I totally get this, but it looks like the Berwick is also importing reindeer.
Or not ... from http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume11/vol11_7.htm
On
one trip to Siberia, Captain Healy of the "Bear" found that Captain
Wagner of the schooner "Berwick" had visited Siberia to secure reindeer
for American exhibition purposes. It was reported that Captain Wagner
had represented himself to be buying deer for the government and had
traded liquor to the natives, a circumstance that demoralized the trade
for the season. Whenever Captain Healy tried to trade for reindeer, the
first demand on the part of the natives was for whisky. He reported that
the unauthorized whisky trading of Captain Wagner had prevented the
government from purchasing at least one hundred reindeer, besides
increasing the prices of those purchased.
Underneath
the additional paper is the original log entry which explains some of
the above (they are also landing the reindeer and Mr. Lopp) -
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_081_1.jpg
Am
Sch Berwick, Capt. Wagner, having on board 14 reindeer from the
Siberian side, was found to be cruising under license instead of
register. From an interview with Capt. Wagner, the Comd'g Officer found
that the master of the Berwick had acted under the direction of Mr.
Bruce, late Superintendent of the Reindeer Station, who represented to
him that he had power to grant him the privilege of importing the deer.
As everything tended to show that there was no intention on the part of
the master of the Berwick to violate the law, the Comd'g Officer
permitted him to return the deer to the other side, thinking that the
trouble, loss of time, and expense to which the Berwick would be put,
would sufficiently vindicate the law, until a report to the Department
could be made.
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I wonder if the Bear was the only Revenue Cutter policing that area.
It seems like a momentous task. They are trying to stop sealing as well
as to prevent sale whisky to the natives. I saw a mention of the Corwin
at Unalaska. Perhaps it is also patrolling the Bering Sea.
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The Bear's surgeon finally succumbed to the flu outbreak in Unalaska
and Dutch Harbor that he has been treating for several weeks:
The
surgeon being sick and confined to his bed, the surgeon of the USS
Petrel took up cases of sickness at Unalaska Village and on board the
ship.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_176_1.jpg
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The simple fact that they were looking for "licences" and not just
vessel registrations indicates that a number of private vessels were
hired to transport the reindeer under gov't rules.
I did find the Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska: With Maps and (Illustrations?)
(http://books.google.com/books?id=VB6W8qFgK4AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:Rx54R7avWlcC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MyETU5OVIObr0gGx34CoAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false)
submitted in 1893. It covers the whole 3 years of planning this,
including a full list of donations collected to pay for the first
experimental shipment. Very interesting.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Zr3ZbV_HUnk/UxMlY_hIPLI/AAAAAAAADVQ/B2430Bp_PMQ/w391-h498-no/reindeer+loading+on+Bear+1893.JPG)
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That looks interesting, Janet. It's by Dr. Sheldon Jackson, whom we have seen before.
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Pressure up to 30.80 in the PM. I haven't seen if that high before.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_186_0.jpg
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Oct. 25 1893
spoke
to Stm. whaling bark "Belvedere" bound to San Francisco. Captain Cook
came on board and reported no accidents to whaling fleet, and about all
of the vessels out of the Arctic.
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Janet, great find especially the reindeer hoisting pic. :)
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 15,000 mark!
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That reindeer picture is great - but it does make me wonder how on
earth they managed to prevent themselves being punctured by their
antlers once they had a whole herd on board .... ::)
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And it must have made cleaning the decks interesting ;)
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That's one word for it! :D
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They were probably scared pooh-poohless before they were even hoisted on board. ;D
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They were obviously stored on the Poop deck.
End of conversation.
;D
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(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-060.gif) lollia paolina passes the 60,000 mark! (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-061.gif)
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Well done my Captain Silvia.
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Way to go, Sylvia! 8) How's the weather up there?
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And the Bear is now 52% complete. It takes a lot of WRs to get a percentage point.
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Just out of curiosity where is everybody up to?
I am doing Aug 1893.
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March 3 1894. It skips from November 93 to February 94.
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I have done most the Nov 93- Feb 94 logs before this one.
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pommystuart (Pommy Stuart) passes the 7000 mark!
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Congratulations to the Captain and all the crew!
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We skip from April 1894 to November 1894, with the usual 6 WRs/page.
This time I am not entering weather information from the remarks.
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;D
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Continuing my reindeer obsession ::)
August 26 1893 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_129_1.jpg
2:15 Officer and launch returned with 5 female reindeer. Hoisted them on board and paid natives in trade goods.
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August 27 1893 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_130_1.jpg
In
compliance with the request of the Bureau of Education, took on board,
Chiau?, a native Siberian boy to be taken to San Francisco and taught
English in order to act as interpreter in the purchase of reindeer.
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I'll bet you will be first in line when we get Santa Clause's logs to transcribe, Jil.
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August 28 1893 at Cape Prince of Wales - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_131_1.jpg
5:30
sent two officers ashore. 7:10 boat returned and officers reported that
Mr. H.R. Thornton, teacher of the Mission School, had been shot and
killed on the night of the 19th inst. by two natives, Kongok?,
Idlianawick?. The other natives, hearing of the murder, shot and killed
Kongok and Idlianawick, and wounded Jitalk another native who did no
shooting but was with them at the time. He afterwards got away. The body
of Mr. Thornton was found in the house, decomposition having set in.
The bodies of the two natives were found on the hillside, back of the
house where they had been dragged after being killed. Carpenter made a
coffin for the remains of Mr. Thornton.
8:20 Officers and boat's
crew went ashore with coffin. 11:10 officers and boat's crew returned,
having buried the remains of Mr. Thornton on the hillside back of the
Mission House.
The Pacific Northwest Quarterly
(http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40487863?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103492452441)
has further info on the murder but you need to register to read more
than the first page.
Picture (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harrison_R._Thornton.jpg)of Mr. Thornton.
August 29 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_133_1.jpg
Mrs. H.R. Thornton came on board for transportation to Cape Prince of Wales.
August 30 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_134_1.jpg
Sent officer and boat's crew ashore with Mrs. H.R. Thornton to aid transporting her effects to the ship.
Carpenter making head board for Mr. Thornton's grave.
7:30
2nd cutter returned with Mrs. Thornton and Mr. Lopp. The head board was
placed in position at Mr. Thorton's grave. Received on board Mrs.
Thornton's effects. Mrs. H.R. Thornton came on board for transportation
to Unalaska.
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I'll bet you will be first in line when we get Santa Clause's logs to transcribe, Jil.
;D I'm there!
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I didn't find a picture, but I did find newspaper articles on it
from Honolulu and San Francisco. They provide details of the
attack and motive.
The morning call., November 13, 1893, Page 10, Image 10
(http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016412/1893-11-20/ed-1/seq-2/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94052989/1893-11-13/ed-1/seq-10/)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vYkpihnad2I/UxdQ44fVl-I/AAAAAAAADWI/yyHwa8C4iOQ/w283-h424-no/Thornton+murder+1.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UaQqH8Qeupg/UxdQ49R6tkI/AAAAAAAADWM/AY1IrYhSlDw/w286-h196-no/Thornton+murder+2.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jZ2yhu6YCcE/UxdQ5LiojwI/AAAAAAAADWc/c18iMbda1_0/w287-h481-no/Thornton+murder+3.jpg)
The Daily bulletin., November 20, 1893, Image 1 (http://)
This
was shows a shocking lack of awareness of the area covered by the Bear
and just how small any one problem is when calculating where the Bear
ought to be when. But it explains the reason for the murder.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZZnB3s6-ZFA/UxdRJ-tWkdI/AAAAAAAADXA/DalSgXK8Qbo/w368-h303-no/Thornton+plea+1.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-oHa7pYWjFq4/UxdRKAQxtHI/AAAAAAAADXE/MF-FL-TsWWA/w387-h510-no/Thornton+plea+2.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1AyUC52L_ms/UxdRKCe-w-I/AAAAAAAADW8/wxey1UD-WN4/w376-h177-no/Thornton+plea+3.jpg)
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The worst things happen in port ;D
In
making the wharf collided with Am. brig "Monitor" of San Francisco,
carrying away her main boom damaging the string piece of the wharf and
carrying away our martingale.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol074/vol074_115_0.jpg
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Ooops :-[
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The worst things happen in port ;D
In
making the wharf collided with Am. brig "Monitor" of San Francisco,
carrying away her main boom damaging the string piece of the wharf and
carrying away our nightingale.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol074/vol074_115_0.jpg
I think it is martingale:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26000/26000-h/26000-h.htm#M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_striker
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You're right, Randi. The loop of the "h" from the line below fooled me.
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April 21, 1994, leaving port of San Francisco:
Received signal from US. Rev. Cutter "Rush" FCSW "wish you a pleasant passage" Answered RSJ "Thanks"
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April 28, 1894
Rev. Sheldon Jackson came on board for his regular inspection tour of the Alaskan schools.
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I don't think Benjamin is going to get a very good reference for his next job!
Having
found Benjamin Valpey?, ordinary seaman, incapable of performing his
duties and generally worthless, disrated him from the 1st instant.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_184_1.jpg
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The army would probably take him ;D
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That's severe! I don't think I've had anyone 'generally
worthless' though Pioneer has got rid of a number for 'ineptitude' or
sometimes 'inaptitude'.
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Unusual turn of phrase?
Benjamin Valpy, a mweak-minded sailor from ... ect
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_074_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol073/vol073_074_1.jpg)
Merid to 4PM
This may explain his situation.
Randi thinks it says Weak minded and looking back I agree.
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Ahh. I hadn't spotted it was the same man. It was more than 3 months
later that he was disrated so it looks like they hadn't given up on him
straight away.
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http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol075/vol075_058_1.jpg
At
one o'clock sent steam launch to ascertain character of a whale boat
seen coming into Unalaska Bay from sea. Found her to be one of the boats
of the wrecked bark "James Allen", lost May 11th in Sequam Pass,
containing Captain Arthur Huntley, and the following six men, St.
Johnson, Thos. Westaway (boat steerers), O. Isakson carpenter, Chas.
Lewis, Frank Pina, and Oscar Hansen, seamen. Brought them on board in a
weak, exhausted condition. Gave medical aid to those needing same, fed
and clothed them. Issued a ration to each. Captain Huntley reported
having left North side of Umnak Id. June 5th and rowed the total
distance 130 miles, to Unalaska, being seven days in route, He had left
ten (10) more men in camp at Umnak Id. being unable to bring them here
in the one boat.
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http://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-by-area/south-west-alaska-shipwrecks-2/south-west-alaska-shipwrecks-j/
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18940623.2.4
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18940712.2.55#
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18940709.2.89 :o ??? :o ???
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At
12:20 boats returned from shore, bringing back nine (9) of the ten (10)
left there ten days ago by Captain Huntley; one having died since he
left. The names of those rescued are Daniel Logan, Frank King, John
Dietriche, Wm. Andrews, James Allen, John Ricker, D. Peterson, Jos.
Milani, and Frank Burton, all seamen, They were in a weak and emaciated
condition from exposure, and starvation, and their bodies covered with
sores and vermin. Food was given them under the Doctors direction, who
also gave them what medical assistance they needed. Their clothes were
thrown overboard as soon as possible, as a sanitary precaution, and hair
cut, hot baths and clean clothes were given them.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol075/vol075_060_1.jpg
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pommystuart (Pommy Stuart) passes the 8000 mark!
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Oct. 1, 1894, off Point Hope, Alaska
The
Master of the whaling schooners "Emily Schroder", Bain, and "Silver
Wave", Calighan, both of San Francisco, came on board and reported their
vessels hard ashore in the Lagoon, just to Westward of Point Hope, and
with no present prospect of floating off. They had been blown ashore in a
hurricane October 13, 1893. Portions of their crews remain by the
vessels, others are dispersed.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol075/vol075_108_1.jpg
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Craig passes the 20000 mark!
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Only 44,000 to catch up to Sylvia (if she stops transcribing, that is) ;D
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;D
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Good job Sylvia is doing a number of ships or we would really be left in her wake. ;)
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Log pages listing to port; capture windows listing to starboard; considerable sea ice.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol075/vol075_139_0.jpg
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;D
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What the well dressed ship is wearing this season:
Received from Department the following flags and bunting,
One Revenue Ensign, No. 1,
One Revenue Ensign, No. 2,
Four Revenue Ensign, No. 4,
One Revenue Pennant, No. 1,
Two Revenue Pennant, No. 2,
One National Pennant, No. 1,
Ten yards Red Bunting,
Ten yards White Bunting,
Five yards Blue Bunting,
Five Yards Yellow Bunting.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol074/vol074_017_1.jpg
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I am proud to be transcribing such a fashion setter. ;D
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Peter Callahan, fireman, returned on board & reported that he
had been compelled to ship on str. "City of Sidney", & now could not
return to this vessel. I discharged him from today, after having him
sign vouchers for his pay from Nov. 1 to Nov. 24, the day he left the
vessel.
???
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol074/vol074_063_0.jpg
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Yeah, I wonder what was so compelling ??? Perhaps they paid better.
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British impressing? If he was a British citizen?
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"City of Sidney"
Maybe he just wanted some sun down under, or, he was to cheap to be a 10 Pound Tourist.
By the way, Happy 1895 to all.
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We're up to 55%! It was 45% about 8 weeks ago.
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 25,000 mark!
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;D
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http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol076/vol076_185_1.jpg Oct. 20, 1895
At
12.30 AM cries of distress were heard at entrance of harbor. Sent
dinghy and cutter to render assistance and on reaching locality found
2nd. Lieut. G. M. Daniels and Surgeon Thos. Bodkin holding on to keel of
overturned boat. On returning from Unalaska their boat had accidently
capsized and when rescued were almost exhausted from their struggles and
long submergence in the cold water.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol076/vol076_186_1.jpg
Lieut. Daniels suffering from anesthesia of hands and arms. Surgeon Bodkin better, except suffering from numbness of fingers.
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That was a close call - I'm glad they were heard in time.
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:o
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The were back on duty the following day. Indeed, very lucky!
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Nov. 7 1895
So much for the wet temperature: :(
Strong
SSE gale with very heavy squalls, hauling to SSW and moderating to a
fresh breeze ... Rough sea ... Hygrometer washed overboard by sea.
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When I read on this page
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol076/vol076_210_1.jpg
that the Bering Sea Patrol was being disbanded at the end of the 1895
season I checked the Internet and found that this was a regular
occurrence at the end of each season. However, look what it says about
what happened in 1897 ...
When the Bering Sea patrol fleet
disbanded as usual after its sum-
mer work at Unalaska, in Septem-
ber, 1897, it was to learn that the
whaling fleet had not returned, but
was probably shut in by ice at the
northernmost point of Alaska, and
that the 265 men composing its
crews would be in danger of dying
from hunger unless aid could reach
them early in the spring. Great con-
cern was felt, at headquarters in
Washington, over the perilous sit-
uation of our venturesome whale-
men. At first the President contem-
plated sending a naval ship to
their relief. Then the Revenue Cut-
ter Service was asked if it had a ves-
sel available for the purpose, and
all its esprit de corps was stirred.
Captain Shoemaker, Chief of the
Service, answered that the Bear
could be utilized as soon as she re-
turned to the States. Next came the
inquiry, "How soon could she be
made ready?" "In about ten days,"
was the prompt response; so that
it was settled that this already fa-
mous cutter should assume the 'hon-
orable responsibility of effecting the
rescue. She had saved General
Greely's life her good fortune
might not forsake her now ! She ar-
rived at Seattle, Washington, on
November 6th, and so rapidly were
the preparations for her winter trip
pushed forward that by the 2Qth
of that month she was fully equip-
ped and provisioned for one year,
carrying in addition 12,000 rations
as relief stores, and sailed once more
for the North, under the command
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WOW - excitement in store!
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The 1896 voyage begins. The log keeper appears to be consistently
reversing the dry and wet temperatures or there is something wrong with
the wet bulb thermometer.
(Remember that they lost their wet bulb thermometer during a storm on the way south in the 1995 voyage. This is a new one.)
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TWYS, because I wish I could believe the new thermometer is calibrated and working correctly. :(
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(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-060.gif) lollia paolina passes the 70,000 mark! (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-061.gif)
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Way to go, Captain Sylvia! 8) 8) 8)
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I would like to know how much detail Kevin would like about the ice conditions?
For
example, on this page
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol077/vol077_136_1.jpg
ice is mentioned in every watch. Does he want to know the exact times,
locations and conditions (if recorded) each time the ice is mentioned on
a page?
It seems like it was particularly icy this summer (1886)
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I believe he wants the statement every mention. Here is a
preserved conversation. (Moderators keep their own archives :) )
How much detail on sea ice to include
This
brings up the perennially unanswered question of what the science team
really wants from this type of information. I can understand them
wanting reports on the ice as they sail in open waters from place to
place. This can give some idea of the extent of ice in that vicinity.
But are the very local conditions of a ship "beset" in ice as the floe
drifts slowly NW of Herald Is. of any real interest, other than the
threat it holds for the Jeannette and crew? In other words, this is
possibly interesting to historians but perhaps not so much to the
scientists?
Quotes from Kevin's email
Any
information about sea ice is of serious interest for several reasons.
We are working on an Arctic sea ice reanalysis for the period 1850-on
based on the Applied Physic Lab's latest sea ice forecast model. It will
be forced by specific large-scale atmospheric fields (I.e. barometric
pressure) from global reanalyses. A crucial issue is - will the result
have an appropriate characterization of the real Arctic sea ice
environment - especially thickness? Since we do not have anything
remotely close to a comprehensive long period sea ice data set like
ICOADS we must build one that is good enough for validation/verification
if the experiment is to be useful. And here is an essential question we
hope to answer: why is the Arctic sea ice disappearing at a rate 2 or
more times faster than the latest climate models project? Sea ice
thickness and the rate of ice advection out of the Arctic via the
trans-polar drift are also tied together. We know that Nansen's ship the
Fram drifted at a rate far slower than what is typical today
(suggesting much less sea ice export back in the day). Which brings us
back to JEANNETTE - certainly one of the very few instrumented drifters
available from which we may glean the necessary data from presumably
earlier than current changes commenced. Or is there more decadal-scale
variability here than anticipated?
Quotes from Randi's email
Thanks
for responding. I should have explained the context.
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3338.msg59301#msg59301)
We understand the need for the information on ice. That is not a
problem. The question is the amount of detail for Jeannette given that
it is stuck in the ice on a long term basis. Clewi has indicated that
s/he is quite willing to continue to transcribe all mention of ice (the
issue arose mainly because Clewi is having trouble with the current log
keeper?s writing). Do you want daily details like the following:
15.1.1880:
At
noon the ice cracked within 20 feet of the starboard Side of the Ship,
causing her to move one eighth of a point in azimuth. The opening
increased to ~ feet in width, and extended around the bow and ahead of
the ship in one direction, and in the other around the stem at the
distance of 100 yards. By 3 PM the opening was eight feet in width on
the Starboard Side, with a crack on the port side indicating an opening
which occured at 6 PM. General direction of ice movement to East and
South.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Jeannette/vol002of004/vol002_014_1.jpg
16.1.1880:
At
2.30 the opening in the floe on the Starboard Side of the ship began to
close, the newly formed ice breaking with ~, and the usual grinding
noise as the two floe edges came together. No movement to the ship
except repeated jars and tremblings as the pressure caught her under
water body. At 3 the ice was again in motion; and frequent shocks were
experienced during the forenoon.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Jeannette/vol002of004/vol002_015_1.jpg
Or, would something like ?Beset in the Pack to the NW of Herald Island? on the Sea Ice tab be sufficient?
Thanks again,
Randi
Quotes from Kevin's email
Hi Randi -
It
is very hard to say - though ultimately none of the detail is wasted
effort - even here we see remarks about the ice being in motion and the
direction. This can tell us a lot about the regional state of the
ice in light of now fairly well understood physics. There will be some
entries I imagine that describe the thickness of the upturned blocks of
ice during ridging events or the formation of melt pools etc. The color
of the ice tells us something about its age... I guess I'd offer that
we're excited to get as much detail as possible, but if it isn't fun for
a person then anything from 'there is ice here' on would be fine. Be
assured though that there is so little information accessible now that
every bit is interesting.
Kevin
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Thanks Janet. I wonder if time of day is important? Sometimes the
time is given within the watch paragraph but other times I would have to
transcribe the watch time period e.g. mid - 4 AM. Is this necessary?
As you know, I don't want to waste time transcribing unnecessary information.
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I have asked Kevin and Philip.
For now, based on past responses, I
would say include the time if it is part of the ice comment but don't
worry about it if it is separated by other text. Stick with TWYS ;)
(I requested an independent field for time/watch a long time ago ;))
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Thanks, Randi. We should be heading south from Point Barrow shortly anyway. 1897 is when we will really get into the ice.
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 30,000 mark!
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It got pretty windy at 10 PM
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol077/vol077_186_0.jpg
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:o :o :o :o
Chop the masts loose!
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;D
What would you do with this one? http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol077/vol077_188_0.jpg
I think he must have shifted the whole AM WRs down 1 hour. What should I do with the line after 12 AM?
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"What would you do with this one?"
I would/will ask Philip ;D
Hmm, if there is a good way of handling this, I don't know what it is.
But
we have to do something, so I'm going for TWYS - put the entries in as
written, the line after 12 has no hour, so put it in with no hour.
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60% complete - woo hooooo! Go team &c &c :)
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The percentage moves along slowly so that we are all the more grateful for our accomplishments.
Regarding
Philip's instructions, I will keep this in mind for the next time it
happens. I didn't transcribe the line without an hour but I would have
difficulty finding the page. Perhaps you can give me the date when you
come across it, Jil?
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Craig, I'll try to remember when I get there.
The percentage is moving much faster than when I first started on Bear so I'm impressed!
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Things are getting badl for the steamer Navarch
Sent
Exec. Officer Lieut. Jarvis to the whaling vessels. Upon his return Lt.
Jarvis reported that the masters of the whaling vessels thought the
situation of the "Navarch" critical and thought that the captain of the
"Navarch" should at least send his wife over the ice where the "Bear"
made to off where the vessel was fast.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_109_1.jpg
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Here's what happened to the Navarch
http: //alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-by-area/northern-alaska-shipwrecks-2/northern-alaska-shipwrecks-n/
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Sorry, Craig. I inserted a space to deactivate that link
because they are infected - I picked up something that AVG blocked for
me before I ever connected entirely. Sorry.
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Hi janet.
Checked out the site with a few scanners.
Listed as infected by AGV
Listed as clear by Trend Micro, Norton and Google.
Run with that info as you wish but to err on the side of safety is always better.
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I'm not surprised - neither you nor anyone else here would have put
the link in if their anti-virus had rejected it. I'm playing safe,
but not panicking. Anyone that wants to copy/paste the link to
use may be just fine, their choice.
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jil passes the 15,000 mark!
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Hanibal94 passes the 5000 mark!
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Hanibal94 passes the 6000 mark!
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I just noticed there have been subtle changes to the Bear log format
which resulted in me sometimes recording the wrong Lat /long
Notice on the voyage to Seattle Nov 3, 1897 the "position at 8 AM" is on the top
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_194_0.jpg
In this log book Dec, 3 1897, it is the "Position at Noon" on the top. Position at 8 AM is underneath.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol079/vol079_018_0.jpg
I didn't notice the switch and I have probably been picking up 8 AM for noon.
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I've informed Philip. Thanks for telling us, Craig.
I
just noticed there have been subtle changes to the Bear log format
which resulted in me sometimes recording the wrong Lat /long
Notice on the voyage to Seattle Nov 3, 1897 the "position at 8 AM" is on the top
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_194_0.jpg
In this log book Dec, 3 1897, it is the "Position at Noon" on the top. Position at 8 AM is underneath.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol079/vol079_018_0.jpg
I didn't notice the switch and I have probably been picking up 8 AM for noon.
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There could also have been earlier switches of this kind I didn't
notice. When I don't expect any changes I tend not to reread the fine
print :-[
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30 days bread and water with full rations every fourth day!
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thanks for the every-fourth-day ;D
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They are still recording wet bulb temperatures with the air temperatures well below freezing.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol079/vol079_084_0.jpg
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https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080129124249AAhJ1mu
Is the wet bulb temperature exists below freezing point ?
Best Answer
Yes
the wet bulb temperature exists below freezing. However, when the web
bulb is below 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C. the humidity is with respect
to ice rather than water. In that case, the relative humidity is figured
just about the same but there is a slight difference.
Observer
manuals tell the observer that when the wet bulb is below freezing and
the wick has not frozen (they often will freeze without any effort on
your part) and is still liquid to touch the wick to a piece of ice or
metal to try to induce the wick to freeze then continue to ventilate the
wet bulb until the lowest reading is obtained. Then use that
temperature for wet bulb.
In forecasting, one of the "tricks" in
forecasting precipitation type is to take a wet bulb cross section of
the atmosphere where you expect to see a warm layer and see if the wet
bulb temperatures remain below freezing. If they do, you will either end
up with snow, snow pellets or sleet. If they go above freezing for a
reasonable depth (varies from place to place) you will either end up
with sleet or freezing rain. It is one of the ways to try to narrow
which precipitation type you may get.
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Good find, Janet. Very interesting.
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8)
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Am I reading this right? "Enraged bull"? The Bear is in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The
master of the Am. Brig Courtney Ford was knocked from the wharf
overboard by an enraged bull. He was picked up by the dingy of the
"Bear" and sent on board a steam launch to be taken on board his own
vessel.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol079/vol079_154_1.jpg
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That's what it looks like - an enraged hull doesn't seem too likely ;D
Perhaps destined for a ranch or dairy farm?
Bull moose?
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Yeah, I was trying to imagine and enraged hull but nothing came to mind ;D
Perhaps a reindeer, although I don't remember seeing mention of a reindeer refuge station and Dutch Harbor.
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Here is the contents of a letter inserted in the log. The Bear had
left a rescue team on shore at Cape Vancouver in December 1897. My
understanding was that the purpose of the voyage was to help some
whaling ships stuck in the ice in the Arctic Ocean the previous fall.
The Bear could only get as far north as Cape Vancouver because of thick
sea ice so it has been in Dutch Harbor and Unalaska since December. This
new log begins in June 1898.
U.S Rev. Steamer Bear
Norton Sound, Alaska
June 23, 1898
Honorable Secretary of the Treasury,
Washington D.C.
Sir:-
The
Bear left Unalaska June 15th for St. Lawrence Island. Pleasant weather
was experienced during the passage and the Island was reached at 12:30
AM June 19th. After a stop of a couple of hours, a start was made for
Indian Point. In an hour heavy ice was met and thick fog settled down,
and it was seemed advisable to return to the Island and await clearing
weather. At 9:00 AM of the 20th, the fog having lifted, another start
was made for Indian Point, but after steaming through 20 miles of ice,
it became so thickly packed as to prevent making further progress. The
vessel was finally headed back for St. Lawrence, Island, which was
reached at 5:30 PM. There was some clear water to the northward and
eastward, I concluded to start for Kings Island. In a couple of hours
ice was again met with. Until 9:00 AM of the 21st was spent in working
towards Kings Island. At that time the ice ahead was closely packed, but
to the northward it appeared more open, the vessel was headed that way.
At 11:00 AM more open water was reached, and St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia,
being the next nearest port, the vessel was head for it. The village at
North Head, St. Lawrence Bay, was reached at 10:00 AM. 22nd, but the
Bay was solidly frozen, making it impossible to reach the reindeer
station. I sent a messenger to inform the Superintendent of the Station
of the arrival of the Bear, and that she would remain at North Head
until night, in order that he might communicate with us. During the
evening, the Superintendent, Mr. Kelly, came over, and reported there
would be about 800 reindeer to transport to the Alaska shore. At 2:30
AM., the 23 inst., the vessel was got underway for Cape Prince of Wales,
where she arrived in the afternoon of the same day. Upon landing I
found that Mr. Lepp, who went to Point Barrow with Lieut. Jarvis, had
returned. I was greatly pleased to learn that the Overland Expedition
had been entirely successful, the deer having arrived in good order, and
no accidents had happened to any of the Expedition. I forward herewith
the copies of the reports I received from Lieut. Jarvis. Lieut. Jarvis
was obliged to buy a great many articles for the Expedition and hire a
number of natives for various necessary purposes. As he could not carry
with him enough articles to pay for services, etc. , I told him to give
written orders, to be presented on board the Bear, which I would make
good. I have already given out a quantity of flour and sugar. Other
articles, such as cloth, tobacco, powder, soup, etc. are not in the
ship?s stores. I shall purchase them in St. Michael and deliver on my
return next week.
At St Michael, the Alaska Commercial Company
supplies the party; at Point Hope, H. Liebes & CO. furnishes the
supplies. Vouchers will be made out and forwarded to the Department.
Lieut.
Jarvis mentions the necessity of a supply of clothing and bedding for
100 men. I am in doubt as to my authority to purchase them, but it is a
case of clear necessity. I shall if possible obtain them at the lowest
price. The matter of compensating Mr. Lapp cannot be settled until have
seen Lieut. Jarvis. Mr. Lapp deserves the greatest praise and
substantial financial reward for what he did for the Expedition. He left
his wife and children, the only white people in that part of the
country, alone in an Indian village, and went with Lieut Jarvis. On what
looked very much like a forlorn hope. Charlie Artisarleek, of Point
Rodney, also left his family, took all his deer and went with Lieut.
Jarvis. This forenoon I found his wife and child in a camp of natives on
Sledge Island, where they were hunting seals. Mrs. Artisarleek said
they had nearly starved since her husband left as seal and fish, their
principal food, had been very scarce. I gave her ample provision to last
three months, and promised to bring her husband back from Point Barrow.
I expect to reach St. Michael tomorrow. As soon as supplies can be
obtained I shall start on my way north. I do not anticipate being able
to reach Point Hope before the 15th of July, as there enormous
quantities of ice both in Behring Sea and above the Straits in the
Arctic Ocean.
Respectfully yours,
F. Tuttle,
Capt. R.C.S., Commanding.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol080/vol080_003_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol080/vol080_004_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol080/vol080_005_1.jpg
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The Bear does life-saving services indeed. How distressing.
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The Bear is at Cape Smyth and is taking on board shipwrecked men
(who wintered there) for passage to Seattle. Too many of them for me to
mention.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol080/vol080_066_1.jpg July 30, 1898
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A number of ungrateful men from a shipwrecked whaler refuse duty. The Bear ran out of double irons to punish them all.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol080/vol080_097_1.jpg
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A new Volume of Bear logs and the surprise is that weather records are more than non standard :)
They look like that:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_003_1.jpg
Also, it seems no Location is being reported.
The volume should cover the period from July 8th, 1906, to February 2nd, 1907
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_001_1.jpg
Please, I need instructions on how you would like those weather records to be trancribed :)
Thank you :)
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This is how I think the page
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_002_1.jpg
should be transcribed. However, to be sure, I will ask Philip and Kevin
to take a look.
Since no location is given, no location should be entered.
Date = 08/07/'06
| Hour | | Wind Dir | | Force | | Bar Height | | Ther Attached | | Dry | | Wet | | Water | | Weather Code | | Cloud Code | | Clear Sky | |
| 4am | 0 | 0 | 29.90 | 63 | 58 | 52 | | Clear | | |
| 8am | 0 | 0 | 29.92 | 63 | 76 | 64 | | Clear | | |
| mid | SW | 1 | 30 | 64 | 57 | 55 | | Cloudy | | |
Like Janet just said ;)
;D
Like Janet just said ;) ;)
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We need Kevin or someone to confirm the Bear's home port for 1906,
because comments like the following seem to indicate she spent that
whole voyage in dock there being rebuilt.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_071_0.jpg
I'm
guessing her captain kept his own log out of good habit and had pulled a
blank-page book for it because the full layout of a printed log would
have been a bit of a waste of time, because she was never going
anywhere. If I were transcribing that logbook, I'd follow the OW
policy for any free-form log and let entering the location for the
future editor. TWYS says missing information stays missing.
I'm assuming Randi already wrote Kevin and Philip for advise, and I'd also wait for their response. :)
what Randi said - mods are clearly crossing wires here. ;)
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Wasn't Captain F. Tuttle, 'Hawkeyes' childhood made up friend.?
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Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/M*A*S*H---Tuttle-78732.html
Funny is our Captain F. Tuttle was his ancestor? :o :D
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Regarding the format of the log, the Lat/Long rows are in correct chronological order for this voyage -- 8 AM, Noon, 8 PM
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 40,000 mark!
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I can no longer keep up my previous "torrid" pace when the logs had
only wind, weather codes and cloud data in odd hours and I could use
autohotkey to great advantage :(
In the 1901 logs they have mostly dropped the odd hour entries and there are only 6 entries per day when in port.
The up side is that one can complete the pages faster.
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I am posting this picture in this thread as it comes from Bear Logs
February 1907, but it could belong to OW art thread as well :)
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_074_0.jpg
:) :)
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8) 8)
I wonder why there are check marks next to W-Z?
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8) and actually rather pretty!
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Lovely!
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I
can no longer keep up my previous "torrid" pace when the logs had only
wind, weather codes and cloud data in odd hours and I could use
autohotkey to great advantage :(
In the 1901 logs they have mostly dropped the odd hour entries and there are only 6 entries per day when in port.
The up side is that one can complete the pages faster.
What function(s) did you assign to the hotkey?
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Type hour, wind direction, wind force then press Alt 1 (hotkey) to
tab over and insert quotes in weather and cloud, then type % cloud. This
would take about 6 to 8 key strokes on a good day.
Nice flags, Sylvia 8)
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Very neat flags!
I just checked my progress on the Bear: The last page I did was on April 17th, and it was October 12th 1894.
Now, the next page I get is July 20th 1895 (Jil's working on her at the time of me writing this, so it may have changed).
And also, while updating my guestimations yesterday, I noticed something nice:
In the past, the Bear's estimated total in WR would go up every time I did an update - but this time, the value went DOWN!
In
other words, it appears she isn't as large as we thought - most likely
because Craig and Silvia are now doing pages that have less than 24 WR /
day.
But since that means one can complete the pages faster (and it
has motivated me to get through the 24 WR pages I'm still stuck with),
who am I to complain?
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Good observation, Hanibal. And we are almost 2/3 finished so dividing by the 2-digit percentage is getting more accurate.
The
log books usually go from about April to November when sailing up north
and then from November to April when in port in Seattle or San
Francisco. They are not in order so sometimes you will get two log books
in port or, in this case, two at sea.
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I didn't record the first reference to this about a month prior. They installed electric lights on the Bear.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol084/vol084_066_1.jpg Feb. 21/1902
Chief Engr J. A. Doyle examining electric light plant.
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Hanibal94 passes the 7000 mark!
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Hanibal94 passes the 8000 mark!
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That is fast 8) 8) 8) 1000 WRs in about 30 minutes!
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Actually, it was more like 30 hours. Randi just took forever to notice.
Even I can't transcribe that fast (but I sure wish I could!).
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It seems that the log keeper is putting the sea temperature in the wet bulb column. Same for previous day.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol087/vol087_017_0.jpg
but corrected the following day http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol087/vol087_018_0.jpg
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I see what you mean.
TWYS is probably still best (thinking about people who don't visit the forum), but I will notify Philip.
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TWYS it is. ;)
about
11:50 W. Monahan, bugler, was accidentally shot in back by Gunner
Crowley who, while handling a 38 cal Colt revolver, found in effects of
Boatswain Thurber, which he thought unloaded but which proved to contain
one cartridge, accidentally discharged the laod through storage
bulkhead hitting Monahan who was sitting on bench in berth deck. Sent on
shore and procured services of Dr. Murret who treated Asst. Eng.
Snyder, C. Bergeson, Boy Leavitt and removed bullet from Monahan
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol087/vol087_020_1.jpg
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Ex-gunner Crowley, I hope! :o :o :o
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Looks like they have him doing the logs now
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol087/vol087_029_1.jpg
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???
Left vessel on 30 days leave :-\
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Dutch Harbor, Alaska Aug. 6, 1903
The
Pacific squadron under command of Admiral Glass, USN, composed of Flag
ship "New York", USS "Bennington", USS "Marblehead", USS "Concord" and
USS "Fortune" left harbor.
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smith7748
Welcome back !
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Hanibal94 passes the 9000 mark!
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This may have been noted earlier in this thread, but there is an overlap between this log book, which ends on Dec. 6, 1903
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol088/vol088_201_1.jpg
and this one, which begins on Dec. 1, 1903
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol089/vol089_003_1.jpg
I transcribed Dec. 1 but I will skip over Dec 2-6 because they are identical to the ones already transcribed.
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Seems reasonable.
Not quite identical though. The vol089 log keeper seems to have added 1pm and 3 pm readings for 1 Dec ???
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Yes, I am seeing (and transcribing) those in subsequent pages. A minor loss for the few pages I skipped.
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Hanibal94 passes the 10,000 mark!
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Way to go, Hanibal! 8)
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Eh, it's nothing really. You've done four times as much as I have,
Craig, and Silvia has even more - more than anyone in OW history has
done on a single ship, EVER.
I'm just a guy who did some stuff on the
Bear a long time ago, but then got distracted by other ships, and has
now returned to make up for it by finishing what he started and thus
relieve his feelings of guilt.
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You are a dedicated, and much appreciated, OW transcriber and forum member!
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You are a dedicated, and much appreciated, OW transcriber and forum member!
Much Appreciated? Me? Really?
That's not how I feel - I'm shy, solitary and have been battling mood swings and low self-esteem for years.
To
me, Old Weather - and the Zooniverse in general - is the one place
where I can actually do something useful, something to make a positive
difference, something that's worth it.
Guess that's why I invest so much time in it.
But
I also have feelings of guilt because there are several times where I
started a Zooniverse project, but then went and started another without finishing the first one. This is my list:
1. Old Weather - Bear
2. Cell Slider
3. Old Weather - Unalga I
4. Notes from Nature - Herbarium
5. Notes from Nature - Ornithological
So for quite some time, I've been trying to make up for my past mistakes by focusing on what I've already started, and only what I've already started, but it hasn't been easy because some of the stuff I have done isn't OW.
So
if I do that stuff, I feel guilty about not doing OW because I'm one of
the few power transcribers here, but if I don't do it I feel guilty
about abandoning it.
The only solution I can think of is to keep slogging forward, and focus on one thing at a time if possible.
At
least I have my recent victory on the Pioneer to serve as inspiration.
It feels great having that one off my back after over a year.
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I think in projects like this it is the cumulative effort that is
important, Hanibal. So even if you jump around a bit and don't finish a
ship it doesn't really make any difference to the total effort. However,
I do think the science team will have results more rapidly if our total
resources are not dispersed too much. But I haven't heard Philip or
Kevin complain about that so I guess they are not overly concerned. In
any case, we are making very good progress on the Bear so we should all
be pleased.
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Good point, Craig. But it isn't the lack of results that makes me
feel guilty - it's the fact that I'm not staying loyal to one thing. If I
jump around like I used to, it feels like I'm breaking personal
promises. And the only way to fix this is by sticking with what I've
started until I've gone as far as I can go on it.
So
yeah, right now I'm doing the Bear because she's at the top of my list.
After that, I'll do Unalga, and then see about those Notes from Nature
things.
Cell Slider, however, is too big and monotonous for
single-minded effort, so I'll just do a bit each day - maybe 200
classifications. That should move things along.
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...
To
me, Old Weather - and the Zooniverse in general - is the one place
where I can actually do something useful, something to make a positive
difference, something that's worth it.
Guess that's why I invest so much time in it.
...
I couldn't have put that better myself (except maybe to include BOINC projects ;))
With
the notable exception of the description of "power transcriber", most
of the rest of your comments also apply to me. I am far better with
things than with people - but my OW family is very dear to me.
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How about "powerfully thorough transcriber", Randi ;D
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Inserted letter explaining the circumstances of a collision between the Bear and the American Schooner "Spokane"
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_002_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_004_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_005_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_006_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol091/vol091_007_0.jpg
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How about "powerfully thorough transcriber", Randi ;D
;D
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A very interesting report - I'm glad it was inserted in the book. Not a good day.
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Here's our progress since I began transcribing
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The Bear was patrolling around Honolulu in the winter of 1905. Sugar
appears to have been the main motivation for the US annexing Hawaii in
1898. Everywhere there was sugar there was either slavery or
exploitation of labour and Hawaii was no exception (except for one
missionary owner who deplored this practice - see the following
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_plantations_in_Hawaii)
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Except for Reverend Elias Bond, all too many of the missionary
families - err, former missionary families - seem to have been all too
happy to participate in the exploitation :P
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70% complete - woooo hoooo!
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We're real punishment for Bears ;D
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Bring out the Bear Cavalry! ;D 8)
(http://www.ru.mdz-moskau.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bear-cavalry.jpg)
P.S. Congrats to Captain Silvia on passing a whopping 80.000 transcriptions done!
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Spectacular!!!
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26th July 1897 - List of arms and ammunition landed at Reindeer Station, St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_092_1.jpg
(Marked U.S. Cutter "Bear". Port Townsend & received at Seattle)
15 boxes (2000) cartridges 44 cal.
30 boxes (1000) cartridges 45-70
10 boxes (1000) cartridges 45-60
1 box (25 sets) reloading tools
2 boxes (not marked)
6 boxes carbines
4 boxes rifles
Marked Reindeer trade. Rec'd on board at Port Clarence.
5 boxes (2000) cartridges (44 cal.)
3 boxes (2000) cartridges (38 cal.)
3 boxes (1000) cartridges (45-70)
4 boxes (1000) cartridges (40-65)
1 box (1000) cartridges (45-75)
3 boxes reloading tools
6 boxes carbines
1 box rifles - Winchester
1 box shot
1 box various articles
2 boxes blank cartridges (1 - metallic shells)
1 box Hotchkiss rifles.
[No sign of the Bear cavalry :)]
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Could they be trading arms to the natives for reindeer. ???
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Great progress, Sylvia! What year are you doing now?
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Things are getting badl for the steamer Navarch
Sent
Exec. Officer Lieut. Jarvis to the whaling vessels. Upon his return Lt.
Jarvis reported that the masters of the whaling vessels thought the
situation of the "Navarch" critical and thought that the captain of the
"Navarch" should at least send his wife over the ice where the "Bear"
made to off where the vessel was fast.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_109_1.jpg
The logbook of the Navarch for 1897 is on line (https://archive.org/details/logbookofnavarch00nava) 8)
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8) 8) 8)
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Can you make out what is written on the last page (October 14th)?
"One glade left the ship with 7 sacks of flour. 12 glade arrived at 4 PM" ???
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This 14 Oct: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_174_1.jpg or another one?
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Sorry, Randi, I was referring to the Navarch log book the Jil found.
I just got to the non-standard Bear logs that Sylvia mentioned on April 24.
The
ship could be around Seattle because the temperatures haven't been much
above 70 in July. Or it could even be farther north because we used to
occasionally get into the 80s in Vancouver.
If fact, having
finished the month of July I am convinced that the Bear must be up
north, perhaps at Unalaska. The highs are in the high 50s or low 60s in
early August.
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This page: https://archive.org/stream/logbookofnavarch00nava#page/46/mode/2up ?
Looking at the S in Ship, I think it might be an S rather than a G, but I'm afraid that that doesn't help much.
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Perhaps it could be a variant on sledge but it doesn't look much like it.
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Philip should perhaps be warned that the 1906 Bear logs do not cover
the daytime hours 8 AM to 8 PM for some strange reason. By typing only
the ending time of the watch this will not be apparent. This one is
typical:
Mid to 4 AM
4 AM to 8 AM
8 PM to Mid
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_025_1.jpg
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Done ;)
Philip says thanks :)
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So it seems the Bear is near San Francisco - it may be Oakland from another indirect reference I saw.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_037_0.jpg
It was a very cool summer for that latitude! (the year of the San Francisco earthquake).
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jil passes the 20,000 mark!
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San Francisco's climate makes everyone else at that latitude
jealous. It comes from being surrounded on three sides by water
due to their enormous natural harbor and getting 95% of their incoming
weather over the Pacific. Those weather readings are just little
on the cool side of normal.
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USCA0987
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So true, Janet. I was there four years ago in the summer, and it was like this:
San Francisco: Hey, it's pretty nice here. Not too hot, not too cold - just right, if a little windy.
Everywhere else in California: AAAAAAHHH! HOT HOT HOT! HEADACHES AND THIRST! HELP!!
Okay, maybe I overdid it a bit, but that's how I remember it.
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An aunt of mine lived there for some 30 years, and we were all
jealous of her climate and just as glad, thank you, to stay away from
the earthquakes.
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29th Aug 1897 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_128_1.jpg
Commanding
officer received a petition from the North American Transportation and
Trading Co. and the Alaska Commercial Co. requesting that the "Bear"
remain at this port for several days, the companies apprehending trouble
from the passengers on board their vessels.
They are at St. Michaels, Alaska so something to do with Klondike Gold Rush?
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Gold fever spreading to the crew?
On 30th August J.J. Caffrey, Coal Passer, was absent without leave, on 31st declared a deserter.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_130_1.jpg
On
1st Sept - Found N. Von Galen, boy, attempting to desert the ship.
taking with him a kyak and various articles of clothing belonging to
others.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_131_1.jpg
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I remember seeing these events and wondering what was going on, Jil. Gold fever is a good possibility.
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The weather reports dwindle to nothing. Skipped from Nov. 24, 1906
to Feb. 7, 1907 - with multiple days per page but no weather. This whole
log book is pretty useless for weather data.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_073_0.jpg
The following log book goes from Jan to Dec 1906, repeating the last six months of the previous one. This one is in standard format with 6 WRs per day. The previous log book should probably be ignored.
My
mistake - I looked ahead and this log book only goes to July 7 1906 so
there is no duplication. But the number of weather reports declines from
6 to only 2 or 3, as in the July 06-Feb 07 book.
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Wow... This is the weirdest ship I've seen since my days on the Yukon.
It's like the crew just stopped caring at all after 1898.
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The Bear doesn't go anywhere in 1906 so there's
nothing interesting to report. Except perhaps for the earthquake, which is coming up in April, I think.
And there is another more complete source for San Francisco area weather data for this period.
http://ggweather.com/sf/sites.html
At least it doesn't take very long to transcribe it.
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Bear logs 1906:
San Francisco Earthquake:
Original log:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol095/vol095_115_1.jpg
Copy:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol096/vol096_114_1.jpg
:)
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New info came in that the original log keeper didn't hear of. Interesting.
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Thanks Sylvia. Now I have nothing to look forward to in the 1906 logs. ;D :P
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Hanibal94
Welcome back ! ! !
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It took us a long time to get another 1% without you, Hanibal. I'm glad you're back.
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Thanks! I must admit, I am very much looking forward to getting past
the 24 WR / day pages I'm dealing with now and getting into the ones
that are quicker to do, the ones Craig and Silvia are in the middle of.
Only got 1 year of log time left until then.
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1 year of log time, I guess? ;D
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Oh, right! Yes, I did mean one year of log time - Oct 1897 to Sep 1898.
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Not sure how helpful this is given the out-of-order logs, but I used
URL editing to see how old the last logbook currently available is.
I got as far as this one - after that, it's nothing but error messages:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol106/vol106_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol106/vol106_001_1.jpg
Example weather page: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol106/vol106_020_0.jpg
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The number of remaining WRs will be much lower than what we
project using the 71%-complete figure if the lower number of WRs per
page continues. The 2006 logs are probably exceptional because the Bear
was always in port but I have the impression that the 24-hourly logs
won't come back. So completion is on the horizon 8)
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Yes, that certainly is true. Once the stream Jil and I are sharing
hits the lower WR / day pages, it'll really get going. I just wanted to
see where we would finish chronologically.
P.S. Don't you mean 1906, Craig? The Bear had been sunk for over 40 years by 2006.
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Zero WRs for the Bear in 2006 - very fast progress! ;D ;D ;D
The 1906 earthquake seems to have had a big affect on one person:
All
hands returned from S. Francisco. having been there to assist Federal
authorities with the exception of S Echisba, 1st class boy, who made an
effort to commit suicide, was turned over to U.S. Army Hospital
Ambulance for treatment.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol095/vol095_119_1.jpg
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Letter regarding affectation of part of Bear's crew to "to tow
various barges and supplies to various camps on San Francisco Bay"
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol095/vol095_129_1.jpg
Following
this transfer, there are no WR's until June 6, 1906. The main activity
is transferring materials and supplies, including charts for Bering Sea
and Arctic Ocean, to the Thetis.
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The scans for December 1897 are rather badly done - for example, the cloud codes are not visible on this page:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol079/vol079_022_0.jpg
I
opened the corresponding events page in another window and put both
windows side by side on my screen so I could transcribe the codes with
the rest of the data.
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I remember those, Hanibal. There are only a few like that.
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Help from Matteo:
Page joining tool - for when the text you are
trying to read is split over two pages
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3489.msg62862#msg62862)
;)
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Thanks. I'll keep that in mind in case I encounter more RATTs (Rare And Tricky Thingies).
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Whew - I got a lot done today. My plan was just to finish up December 1897.
But then towards the end of that month, I noticed the pages were all 6 WR / day only.
So I peeked ahead via URL editing, and I was very surprised to discover that Jan - May 1898 almost always have the 6 WR pages.
This
excited me so much after all these log years of 24 WR pages that I went
ahead and did all of Jan - May 1898. It took me about 4 hours.
Not my personal best, but still a good day's work.
I'm
shutting down for the night now. I finished a whole log book, it's 3 am
right now, and I'm tired. Using music to keep oneself awake can only go
so far.
An exhausted but proud Hanibal94
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Unbelievable dedication there. Sleep well and reward yourself tomorrow by having fun. :)
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Hanibal94 passes the 15,000 mark!
We are proud of our exhausted Hanibal94
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_4544.gif)
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Thanks! I did indeed sleep well - except for a really weird dream
involving snow, family, sledding, volcanoes and cartoon ponies (but no
ships!).
Wonder what Freud would make of that one...
And yes, I will see about having fun. I have to go to some family thing this afternoon, but at least there will be cake.
After
that, maybe I can stream some movies over the Internet. In Germany,
downloading is illegal but streaming is not, which is great for young
geeks like me. 8)
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Way to go, Hanibal. You pushed us up another percentage point!
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Today, I finished all the 19th century logs and jumped forward to July 1901.
I believe there are no more 24 WR pages left - which is very good news!
Plus, I have a double weekend because Thursday is a public holiday and I used a vacation day for Friday. Oh yeah!
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;D
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Are they still working on removing the copy of the Jan-May 1906 log, Randi?
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I assume so. It has to go through several people. I haven't had any updates.
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If they don't remove the duplicate before I get that far, I might
just skip through it by hitting "I've finished with this page" lots of
times.
I just got to the Oct 1901 - Apr 1902 log, which is very
weird: Only 6 WR per day, consisting of just the barometer and
temperature.
But I like that - this is gonna be much more fun than those 19th century 24 WR/day pages I was battling for ages!
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;D
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The Jan 1903 log book is in rather bad condition - the writing is
rather faint some of the time, and just plain messy at other times.
This page is not only covered in scribbles, it's in such poor condition I can see the next weather page through it!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol087/vol087_015_1.jpg
At least the low WR / day mean I will be done with this book VERY soon.
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:P :P :P
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Books like that make me extremely grateful that OW came along and
got that book scanned. Both paper and digital storage are fragile,
but digital storage is much more easily backed up and duplicated.
Old age eats paper books, no question. And our translations are
preserving history at a clearly important point.
Be very grateful we are not coping with the RN's economy version of faded-ink-scans here. ;)
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NOTE: If you find a page that is hard to read because of the scan, let us know via "Faulty scanned and duplicate pages" and we will try to get it rescanned.
(See http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3383.msg71925#msg71925 (What you now see in the link is the good page))
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Thanks, but it's not that bad - at least not for the weather data. So far, I've been able to read even the faintest stuff.
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Word from NARA is, they are rehabbing the paper and/or scanning at
different light wave lengths to achieve that legibility. I'm
thinking you can see the printed ink on the other side because some of
the pencil strokes were exactly that faded and invisible on first
scan. Unlike the RN - and this NOT the RN's fault - NARA is owning
and keeping these scans for publication on their own site. They
want the pictures to be archival quality, not the cheap jpeg pics we
downsize them to for our interface to read.
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Hanibal94 passes the 20,000 mark!
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8) 8) 8)
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Just for fun, I used URL editing to see how many logbooks are left in my stream and how large they are.
Here's what I got:
#90: Jan 1904 (where I am at the time of writing this)
#91: July - Dec 1904
#92: Jan - June 1905
#93: July - Dec 1905
#94: 8th July 1906 - 19th Feb 1907
#95: Jan - Dec 1906
#96: Jan - May 1906 (The copy that should be removed)
#97: Dec 1907 - June 1908
#98: July 1908 - Dec 1908 (The color code sheet at the beginning says it starts on Jan 1908, but this is wrong)
#99: Jan - June 1909
#100: July - Dec 1909
#101: Jan - June 1910
#102: July - Dec 1910
#103: Jan - June 1911
#104: July - Dec 1911
#105: Jan - June 1912
#106: July - Dec 1912
#94 and #97 overlap with other books as well, but they also have unique parts and should NOT be removed.
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It's nice to know where we're going, Hanibal. Thanks.
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75% complete! HECK YEAH!
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I haven't been looking at the Bear page lately so I didn't notice that Jil passed the 20,000 mark!
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Yep - on May 18'th - http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3096.msg88459#msg88459 ;D
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I looked for it but I didn't go back far enough. I shouldn't have doubted you, Randi ;D
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I have missed a couple of milestones :-[
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The logs for October 2nd - Dec 31st 1905 appear to be completely missing.
The note at the start of the batch claims they are there:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol093/vol093_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol093/vol093_001_1.jpg
But after doing October 1st 1905, I was taken straight to the next batch:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_001_1.jpg
And according to URL editing, Batch 93 has no more pages at all:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol093/vol093_097_1.jpg OK
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol093/vol093_098_1.jpg Error!
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I have an XL sheet from Gina in Scanning - 10 different sections of
the Bear's logs were duplicates because the Archives chose to scan both
rough and clean log books whenever the rough logs were available.
Volume 93 is one of these. (There 9 such rough logs removed from
our interface - Volume 94 which created a temporary duplicate problem is
the only one of them that did NOT get blocked.)
Life is good and a potential transcription problem avoided. Keep on transcribing in peace. :)
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Volume 94 is partly duplicate - the later half of 1906 can be found elsewhere, but Jan 1st - Feb 19th 1907 are unique.
Besides, this is an unusual log with only 3 WR per day.
For example: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol094/vol094_005_0.jpg
So I have no trouble with doing the whole batch. Should be done by tomorrow ;)
But what about Volume 96 ? That one's a duplicate of Volume 95. Will it be removed soon please?
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I asked last week, and I am still waiting for a response.
I would be willing to help click through Vol 96. That might be the simplest solution.
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I am having difficulty remembering which volume number the existing
duplicate log has. I also don't understand why you are getting
1907 logs in volume 93. This is an extraction of what Gina put on
her spreadsheet. (blue lettering means Gina was informed these
logs were blocked.)
Box or Volume
# From
To
Loaded
Volume 1 of 2 03/17/1884 09/22/1884 Yes
Volume 2 of 2 09/23/1884 11/26/1884 Partially Images from Oct. 20 to Nov. 26 are not online.
Volume 70 10/01/1891 12/12/1891 Yes The
same pages are also in Volume 70A. Consider taking these images down
and just using Volume 70A. Alternatively, you can keep these images
online and delete the duplicate images (0002 to 0084) from Volume 70A.
Volume 70A 10/01/1891 12/12/1892 Yes The
volume contains images from Oct. 1 to Dec. 12, 1891, and also from Nov.
1, 1892 to Dec. 12, 1892. Thus, this volume duplicates the images from
Volume 70. See the comment above.
Volume 75 04/21/1894 11/14/1894 Yes Two
versions of Volume 75 are online. This set must have been done during
the Beta phase (you can see fingers holding down the logbook pages);
here is a sample file name:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/USS%20Bear/Bear_1894/pics2%20012_0.jpg).
Another version containing better images in high-resolution is also
online (see the next entry).
Volume 75 04/21/1894 11/14/1894 Yes Keep this version of Volume 75 and take down the images described in the above entry.
Volume 75A 10/01/1894 11/14/1894 Yes Same material as Volume 75. Take these images down and use Volume 75.
Volume 81 05/05/1899 11/12/1899 NO (no comment)
Volume 82 04/26/1900 11/24/1900 Yes Rough log; use Volume 82A instead.
Volume 82A 04/26/1900 11/05/1900 Yes Smooth log; use this volume instead of Volume 82.
Volume 83 07/14/1901 10/26/1901 Yes Smooth log; use this volume instead of Volume 85.
Volume 85 07/14/1901 10/26/1901 Yes Rough log; use Volume 83 instead.
Volume 86 04/27/1902 12/06/1902 Yes Rough log; use Volumes 86A and 86B instead.
Volume 86A 04/27/1902 11/07/1902 Yes Smooth log; use instead of Volume 86.
Volume 86B 11/08/1902 12/06/1902 Yes Smooth log; use instead of Volume 86.
Volume 93 07/01/1905 12/31/1905 Partially Images from Oct. 2 to Dec. 31, 1905 (beginning with image # _0098) are not online.
Volume 95 01/01/1906 07/07/1906 Yes Rough log; use Volume 96 instead.
Volume 96 01/01/1906 05/04/1906 Yes Smooth log; use this volume instead of Volume 95.
Volume
98
07/01/1908 12/31/1908 Yes Smooth
log; use this volume instead of Volume 98A.
Volume
98A 07/01/1908 01/01/1909 Yes Rough
log; use Volume 98 instead.
Volume
99 01/01/1909 06/30/1909 Yes Smooth
log; use this volume instead of Volume 99A.
Volume
99A 01/01/1909 06/30/1909 Yes Rough
log; use Volume 99 instead.
Volume
100 07/01/1909 12/31/1909 Yes Smooth
log; use this volume instead of Volume 100A.
Volume
100A 07/01/1909 12/31/1909 Yes Rough
log; use Volume 100 instead.
There are more for later years.
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Keep in mind that even if you can access a log page on line via its
JPG, that does NOT necessarily mean that you get it when you are
transcribing.
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I
am having difficulty remembering which volume number the existing
duplicate log has. I also don't understand why you are getting
1907 logs in volume 93.
1. The duplicate is Volume Number 96.
2. I'm getting the 1907 logs in Volume 94, not 93.
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This is what she says about volumes 93 to 97:
Volume
93 07/01/1905 12/31/1905 Partially Images
from Oct. 2 to Dec. 31, 1905 (beginning with image # _0098) are not
online.
Volume
94 07/08/1906 02/15/1907 Yes Not
a standard logbook format.
Volume 95
01/01/1906 07/07/1906 Yes Rough
log; use Volume 96 instead.
Volume
96 01/01/1906 05/04/1906 Yes Smooth
log; use this volume instead of Volume 95.
Volume 97 12/19/1907 06/30/1908 Yes (no comment)
According
to this, January and February 1907 were in journal form, not a standard
log book - apparently common practice when in winter harbor or dry
dock. December 1907 is the start of the next standard
logbook. There are no logbooks for the months in between.
And they were indeed doing every volume or box of Bear logs in the
archives. Maybe she was in dry dock all year that year without
even officers around to journal?
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With Silvia, the decision was made to use volume 95 rather than volume 96 because it is more complete.
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With Silvia, the decision was made to use volume 95 rather than volume 96 because it is more complete.
I believe that decision was made after Gina emailed us the spreadsheet. I'll correct the comments in my copy.
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I believe that decision was made after Gina emailed us the spreadsheet.
Yes - based on new info ;)
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Help! I'm getting confused about how to proceed!
After doing Volume 94, should I do 95 or 96?
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I don't blame you ;)
Do Volume 95
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OK, I have finished Volume 94 (sure was fast!) and have now started 95.
I
think I will transcribe the events regarding the April 1906 earthquake
myself. The handwriting in this log is actually quite easy to read, and
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which events are specific to the
recovery efforts.
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8)
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There's not really very much in that regard, Hanibal. They sent much
of their crew to help out but we don't get many reports about it. The
logs after the earthquake mainly concern the transfer of supplies and
equipment from the Bear to another ship (the Thetis, if I remember
correctly). The Bear goes nowhere for the rest of the year and it's down
to 3 WRs per page (only covering part of the day).
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Thanks for the tips, Craig. If Vol 95 only has 3 WR per day later on
(I did all of January, which was 6 WR / day), I should be able to
finish it tomorrow. Then I can skip through the duplicate log too.
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Hanibal94 passes the 25,000 mark!
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I have finished the earthquake section. I transcribed everything
specific to the quake, and the names of other ships the Bear
encountered, but I was too impatient to deal with the names of crew
being transferred (I made sure to mention that there were transfers,
though).
Am currently clicking my way through May 1906 - no WR or locations at all!
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Let me know when you get to volume 96 - I will click through as the third transcriber ;)
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I finally decided to do it, Randi. It only took me about 20 minutes. Thanks for the offer.
I am now at Dec. 19, 1907 in volume 97.
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Alright Craig! It's great to have you back.
And thanks for the offer, Randi, but I can manage. 20 mins is no big deal.
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I made it through the duplicate - and we have advanced by 2% in one day! Awesome!
Since Randi asked, here are the very first and very last pages that I encountered in my stream:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol096/vol096_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol096/vol096_131_1.jpg
However, I have bad news. While using URL editing to peak ahead, I discovered that there are pages with 24 complete WR per day:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol097/vol097_160_0.jpg
Oh well. At least there's only 6 WR when in port, and there's just 5 more years of logs left.
And with Craig back in the game, our output should increase a good bit.
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The Unalga now has 24 WRs even in port so the Bear will be a nice change.
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Hey, I just noticed something: According to Gina's spreadsheet, there is at least one log book for 1900:
Box
or Volume # From
To
Loaded
Volume 82 04/26/1900 11/24/1900 Yes Rough log; use Volume 82A instead.
Volume 82A 04/26/1900 11/05/1900 Yes Smooth log; use this volume instead of Volume 82.
Sure enough, I was able to access pages via URL editing:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol082/vol082_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol082/vol082_001_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol082/vol082_100_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol082/vol082_146_0.jpg
However,
I clearly remember that when I finished 1898, I got taken straight to
1901. And Craig told me the same thing happened to him.
So this means one of two things happened:
A.
The log is not available for transcribing through the interface, even
thought the JPG links are online (Randi did say it is possible for this
to happen)
B. The log is available, but out of order (so perhaps it
comes after the 1912 ones, the latest ones I could find). Maybe it had
to get repaired and was therefore uploaded later than the rest?
Could somebody please say which of my two theories is correct?
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Another possibility is that it was done a long time ago, before we
came on board. We had some quite recent Unalga logs before getting the
early 1900 ones.
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Could be, Craig. I just checked my old Bear transcriptions from
summer 2012, and they're from 1884 and 1887. No 1900 in there, but I
didn't do very much.
I will ask Silvia. Maybe she ran into that log.
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Received from Department 2 copies "Annual Report Light House Board" and one copy "The limitations of Formaldehyde Gas"
The second book must be fascinating ;D
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol097/vol097_097_1.jpg
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Hanibal94: I have asked.
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Limitations of formaldehyde gas? I wonder why they received that book?
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If the crew is not careful when they fumigate with formaldehyde gas there will be nobody to read the book.
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;D
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Um, I think there's another duplicate that didn't get blocked: After finishing volume 97, I got taken to Volume 98A:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098A_006_0.jpg
But there is a volume 98:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098_006_0.jpg
And according to Gina's spreadsheet, 98A should have been blocked and 98 is the one that should be done.
So should I just skip through 98A like I did with the other duplicate?
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You're ahead of me now, Hanibal.
Can we assume that just
because both are online that they are both connected? They likely are
but perhaps it would be safer to do 98A and click through 98. It would
be useful to know what Sylvia did.
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Good point, Craig. It would probably be safer to do 98A because we know for sure it's there.
Keep
in mind that even if you can access a log page on line via its JPG,
that does NOT necessarily mean that you get it when you are
transcribing.
I
sent a PM to Silvia asking about 98A and 98. I will wait for the
moderator's opinion before doing any more transcribing, though.
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How about doing a few pages on the Albatross 1900?
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Silvia says she did Volume 98A.
As regards the duplicate logs for July-December 1908, I wrote about that to Randi yesterday.
I
completed the transcription of the original log for that period as that
was what I was presented with after completing the previous volume.
When I finished the original log I thought I was supposed to start the 1909 volume.
I got the copy of the July-December 1908 logs.
I do not know when and if things will be sorted out.
Also, in the case they would like to remove all the rough logs my transcriptions might be deleted.
I am quite puzzled at the moment :)
Till the next time,
Ciao,
Silvia :)
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The transcriptions saved are in an entirely different storage than
the interface and its scans, backed up frequently. Nothing done to
keeping/blocking scans here is going to disturb the data already
transcribed. It MIGHT mess up the interface's record of those
transcriptions, but trust me - the climatologists aren't allowing any of
the interface geeks access to entered data.
The problem is in
the original scanning, no one at the scanner (before we ever saw them)
knew the difference and duplication between clean and rough and simply
went and did every volume on the Bear shelf not necessarily in order by
date, and then others tried to decipher what was which in a very dense
hard drive.
The good news, they've used their gained
experience to choose which logs to put online on future ships - and
they've learned that sorting these things out is one reason why future
ships should be cut up into shorter voyages. This problem is
unlikely to be repeated. The bad news is, good people have been
trying to straighten this out for months now and trying very hard.
It is just a very complicated puzzle. Know that they care and are
trying.
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That's good to know, Janet.
In any case, there's no point in
asking them to delete any logs, like we did last time. I will just click
through the second one. It only takes 20 minutes or so.
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If Silvia already transcribed 98A and Craig is doing the same, then so will I.
I
wonder which one of us will finish our stream first? Silvia may be
furthest ahead, but she works on other ships too. Craig and I are very
dedicated and focused, but he's retired, so he could easily invest more
time and win. Jil is on the same stream as me, but she's currently very
busy and hasn't done anything on the Bear for weeks.
This will be an interesting competition. 8)
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Thank you all for your patience and willingness to click through the duplicates.
Our overworked support team is trying to make sure this will not happen yet again ::) :(
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We could have a clicking competition, Hanibal ;D
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For the title of Click Draw McGraw?
;)
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Quickdraw+McGraw
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;D ;D ;D
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On this page, some of the WR are out of order chronologically :
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098A_041_0.jpg
I
was very careful to always enter the correct hour. Note that this means
it will NOT be possible to use the position of each WR box on the page
to figure out the time.
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Hanibal, the hour box proved to be so much more accurate than
position on the American ships, Philip dropped using position entirely
and went to making the hour mandatory. (It had been asked for
early in the beta tests to make keeping track of what line we were on
easier. Turned out to be a lucky request. :) )
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I
wonder which one of us will finish our stream first? Silvia may be
furthest ahead, but she works on other ships too. Craig and I are very
dedicated and focused, but he's retired, so he could easily invest more
time and win. Jil is on the same stream as me, but she's currently very
busy and hasn't done anything on the Bear for weeks.
This will be an interesting competition. 8)
Have
you considered the fact that if you finish first I'll be the one to put
the Bear to bed, Hanibal? I know that's your greatest
pleasure. ;D
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Well, that was true - but today, the huge size of the Phase 3 ships
means that simply finishing my part on them alone is enough of an
achievement for me.
Besides, I've changed since the RN days. I'm not
the hotheaded berserker I once was - now, I am a calm and focused
warrior, dedicated to the task rather than personal glory.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ba6gq9vZ4Tg/UpjpMZlPoII/AAAAAAAA5TM/tb1AGKNeRFE/s1600/PrincessTwilighttheEnderslayer.png)
So I don't really mind not delivering the final blow to the Bear as long as I can at least finish my stream.
Besides,
I think Silvia will be the one to finish the whole Bear. She works on
other ships, she's just been on the Bear for much longer.
I'll see
how the next few days go, and how much time I have. I was hoping to
finish August 1908 tonight, but since it's a weeknight I have been
forced to stop at the 21st. At least the weekend is coming up - I can
get a lot done then.
But for now, I must rest. Goodnight everyone.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M6Ggc0ldMdE/UwE5uEGDnCI/AAAAAAABCUg/Lwaylz_8GXY/s1600/PrincessTwilightsmomentofrest.png)
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Goodnight.
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Good night, sleep well. 8)
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gastcra (Craig) passes the 50,000 mark!
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:)
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Very impressive, Craig!
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Thanks, Hanibal. They way you're going you'll catch up to me soon in total WRs regardless of ship.
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Hanibal94 passes the 30,000 mark!
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Thanks, Hanibal. They way you're going you'll catch up to me soon in total WRs regardless of ship.
Yes, that is true actually! It will take some time before that happens, but I will make it if I keep my current rate up.
I
think we'll both end up passing leelaht as well (She's No. 2, Craig's
No. 3, I'm No. 4), because her weekly rate has dropped to about 1500 WR
(I know this from updating my guestimations - she's the only one doing
Jamestown 1886, so I can easily see how much she's been doing).
But
as for whether I will overtake the great and powerful Silvia to become
the next Numero Uno.... that's another story entirely.
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It's heavy going now, with 24 WRs per page even when in port. I
think the Bear is mostly doing sounding now (July 1908) but it is
surprising that the Rush, Perry and Yorktown are all there with her
between St. Paul and St. George Islands. I wonder why so many ships are
concentrated there, since there doesn't seem to be anything but sounding
going on. ???
Yes, Silvia is out of reach for me too.
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I saw something on the Yorktown's NavalHistory page about seal
protection around that time, and I remember seeing notes on the Bear's
event pages about boarding foreign ships and searching them for seals.
Maybe that's why there's all those ships in the area.
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A very big issue for decades, protecting the fur seals.
Searching for history of that, I found this explanation of the phrase,
"beating the rush", although all cutters on Bering Sea Patrol were
involved.
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2010/05/history-sea-language-washes-ashore-or-why-beat-the-rush/
The problem culminated in a treaty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911
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8)
I added your beat the rush link to the Rush's Reference page.
There is also this:
SEAL HUNTING IN ALASKA
(http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10E1FFB3C5811738DDDAA0A94DE405B8585F0D3)
- History of the Growth of this Important Industry. DAMAGE DONE BY
RECKLESS KILLING Five Hundred Thousand Said to Have Been Slaughtered in
One Year -- Present Restrictions -- Our Fleet of Cutters. - NYTimes.com -
1895.
from Corwin's and Perry's Reference pages.
Corwin is mentioned in this article.
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Thanks Randi and Janet. That is interesting background.
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Alright, I just finished Volume 98A and have now been presented with Volume 98, the duplicate.
Since
I already did all of 98A, I will skip through 98 - except for the
weather page for Nov 5th 1908, which I did not get during 98A for some
reason.
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Sounds good to me. :)
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I will notify the PTB as soon as I hear from Slivia.
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The weather page of 24 Jan 1909 has what appears to be a bloodstain on it - could it be a smashed mosquito?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099/vol099_029_0.jpg
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Would dried blood be red or brown?
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I see black ink blots, a definite dark red smish of some sort (not
brown-red of dried blood) and a faint large wiped-off smear at the
bottom. Makes you wonder what was going on in that cabin when the
log keeper was making the clean log that day. ::)
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Granted liberty to most of watch on board to enable them to attend minstrel show given by the USS Yorktown
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098A_075_1.jpg
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That was nice fun. :)
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Yet ANOTHER duplicate! It appears Jan - June 1909 has been done twice as well:
Smooth (came up first in the interface, so I transcribed it):
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099/vol099_006_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099/vol099_006_1.jpg
Rough:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099A/vol099A_006_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099A/vol099A_006_1.jpg
Oh well. Time for some more clicking.
Hope my mouse doesn't explode.
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There are 10 of the duplicates, Hanibal. Just soldier thru
them all - I really wish there was an easier way out of this.
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Thank you for your patience, Hanibal94!
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OK, I'm done with the duplicate. Now to deal with July - Dec 1909.
It has 24 WR / day even when in port, though. This will take a bit.
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Guess we will have to just grin and bear it :D
The up
side of all this is that if there are that many duplicate logs ahead of
us and we can click through them, then we are almost finished.
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There are 10 of the duplicates, Hanibal. Just soldier thru them all - I really wish there was an easier way out of this.
Yes,
that is true - I checked via URL editing, and it turns out volumes 100 -
106 (all the ones left in my stream) have duplicates.
I will transcribe whichever one I am presented with first, and skip through the other one.
The
up side of all this is that if there are that many duplicate logs ahead
of us and we can click through them, then we are almost finished.
Yes, that is true - I suppose this means the logs really do end on Dec 31st 1912.
But these ones are tough - 24 complete WR when at sea, 12 or 24 in port.
Gonna take a while even for us power transcribers.
At the rate I'm going, I'll be done by the end of July (I hope).
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Oops, I just realized something - for a long time, the Bear has
visited a place in California called Sansalito - but I just realized the
place is actually called Sausalito, and I entered it wrongly hundreds
of times!
This is so embarrassing... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Can someone please let the PTB know about this so it doesn't ruin their analysis as well?
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My Bear log stream skipped from Oct 31 to Nov 5 1908. There
was not enough time for anyone (except perhaps Silvia or Hanibal) to
complete the missing ones properly.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098A_130_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol098/vol098A_135_1.jpg
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I did all of those in my stream. All OK.
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Must be a newby who skipped through them, then.
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Oops,
I just realized something - for a long time, the Bear has visited a
place in California called Sansalito - but I just realized the place is
actually called Sausalito, and I entered it wrongly hundreds of times!
This is so embarrassing... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Can someone please let the PTB know about this so it doesn't ruin their analysis as well?
Philip will see your note here.
n and u are always a problem :P
Don't worry - there should be two Sausalito's ;)
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That's why the PTB use analysts. No one can afford the labor
costs to do our transcribing, but the transcribing is made
science-worthy by the analysts looking only at the information the
system kicks out. :)
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Oops,
I just realized something - for a long time, the Bear has visited a
place in California called Sansalito - but I just realized the place is
actually called Sausalito, and I entered it wrongly hundreds of times!
This is so embarrassing... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Can someone please let the PTB know about this so it doesn't ruin their analysis as well?
I
remember doing the same thing in the beginning, Hanibal. The writing
was poor and it does often look like Sansalito. At one point I had a
doubt and did a search for Saualito and was surprised that it actually
existed. But searching for Sansalito didn't get any hits so I
assumed that the analysts would figure it out.
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Way to go, Captain!
(That's more WRs on one ship than I've done in my entire OW career. :( )
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Mare Island 23rd April 1909 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol099/vol099_118_1.jpg
About
9.30 discovered fire on second story of paint shop, next to dock on
west side. Notified Marine sentry and sounded alarm on board ship.
Warrant officers, quartermasters, anchor watch, and members of crew
sleeping aboard ship lead out dock hose, climbed to second story
outside, broke in window and extinguished fire about time of arrival of
Marines, crew from yard and from Independence. Cause of fire evidently
spontaneous combustion from oil soaked clothing etc.
I love the way they say they had everything sorted by the time everyone else arrived!
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Good work, Silvia! 8)
Yes, the marines and others got a bit of a snub there, JIL. ;D
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Hip Hip Hurray for the Bear ! ! !
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Congratulations Silvia! That might be even more than I did for all of Phases 1 and 2 - not to be sniffed at!
Oh, and I just noticed something strange. First of all, this was mentioned:
Jil
and I have been plugging away at the Bear. We both had to click through
log book 99a and wondered how that could happen since you did it too.
Then it dawned on us that we had passed Silvia!!! It took a while for
that fact to sink in ;D
Upon
checking my own stream, I found myself exactly where I had left off
before going on vacation. This was totally unexpected, because Jil did a
bunch while I was gone, and she and I share a stream.... or so I
thought.
It appears this has now changed.... Could it be that Silvia
has gone as far as she could on the Bear and can't do anymore, and this
has caused a rearrangement of streams?
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I think that Silvia has slipped in to the third stream, Hanibal. She
has not been very active on the Bear lately, I think. You probably
passed her before you left. The fact that the three of us have clicked
through 99A indicates to me that Silvia didn't get that far. If she had
gone to the end then that would have made four of us clicking through
99A, which shouldn't happen.
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Yes, I may or may not have passed her chronologically. I don't know where she is, because she almost never posts.
At
least we aren't on the same stream - She did a couple thousand WR while
I was gone, but I found myself exactly where I had stopped just before
leaving.
I'll PM her and ask about this.
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I am "mentioning" ships if they are USS or USRC because I remember a
long time ago Philip said that it was useful to be able to compare data
for ships that are in the same place - especially lat/long. I would be
curious to know to what extent he does this? Of course, until all the
ships have been completed the effort would not be optimal.
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I think he is looking for the future - he can't do a good analysis
until more of the American ships are in all the data bases. But
really, thank you for the mentions!!! That will be the basis for
all kinds of cross checking.
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Hanibal94 passes DennisO!
(Just be sure you pass your classes - at the moment they are more important ;))
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Hanibal94 passes 40,000 !
When do you find time to sleep? 8) 8) 8)
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Hanibal94 passes the 40,000 mark!
Thanks, Craig ;)
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Well done, Hanibal!
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When do you find time to sleep? 8) 8) 8)
At night, of course! Whaddiya think?
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Oh, I forgot that at 3 1/2 minutes per page you didn't spend long
transcribing the vast number of pages you did before you left on
vacation ;D
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One has to be crazy to want a promotion? ;D
3rd Lieutenant J.P. Gray and 3rd Lieutenant of Engineers H.F. Johnson, undergoing mental examination for promotion.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol100/vol100_149_1.jpg
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;D
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Silvia and I are the only two transcribing now - 11:51 (at least,
amongst the top 12) and we are leap-frogging. So we are in the same
stream.
I am guessing that you remain in your stream unless
someone passes you. Hanibal is probably in the first stream now. I would
have thought that Silvia would be in the second but Jil and I must have
passed her and Jil got the second stream.
In any case, there's not much point in Silvia and I doing the same pages so I will wait until she stops.
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Clever observation, Craig. And it does make sense, given I
definitely passed you and may have passed Silvia (I'm at April 1910 at
the time of writing this).
I'll keep going, but I won't be doing
it as intensely as before - I may have produced a LOT of WR data, but I
was using up all my free time in order to do so. This is actually a
rather bad idea and it was making me feel exhausted and moody, so I'm
cutting back.
From now on, I won't do more than 750 WR per day, even on weekends.
Still, at that rate I'll have my stream done before September 1st - not bad!
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Good decision, Hanibal94.
This is important, but it should not take up all your free time
- especially when it starts to have a negative effect on you. This is a
long term project, so we don't want you to get burned out. As far as I
am concerned, 750 WR per day is enormous.
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I agree, Randi.
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I agree with Randi - make OW a part of your life that adds richness without blocking the rest.
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As Randi said 750 is an enormous amount for anybody yet alone a youngster.
Slow down a bit and enjoy your youth, (it does not last all that long) but don't go away.
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Thanks people - I've been thinking about this for a while, and I
have realized that the main problem is that the Bear has 24 WR / day,
EVERY SINGLE DAY. This makes it very tiring to do a whole lot at once.
If it were less than that, it would be much better. On the RN ships, I almost never got exhausted.
I
think I will try switching to other Zooniverse projects when the Bear
gets too tiring. For example, one of the image batches on Notes From
Nature is 99% complete, but it still needs several thousand
classifications because it's so big.
I know from past experience that I can do one such image in one minute, as long as there's nothing really weird about it.
And of course, there's always Cell Slider.
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I checked ahead, Hanibal, and during the winters of 1911 and 1912
there are only 12 WRs per page. Something to look forward
to. ;)
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Yes, I know. The first 12 WR pages actually appear sometime in September 1910 - I was peeking ahead too.
It's
been such a long time since I had to deal with these many 24 WR pages -
last time was on the Pioneer, that lasted for only 9 months, and I knew
it was the last few batches before the end, so I was very very
motivated to finish them.
I just finished April 1910 - now I will
take a break and enjoy myself for a few hours. Maybe I'll do a bit more
in the evening, maybe not.
Just gotta keep in mind that just because I
have above-average speed and dedication does not mean I have to make
use of it all the time.
P.S. Big Congrats to Craig for passing 60.000!
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Thanks, Hanibal94 ;) ;D
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Just in case anyone is curious, I get 21 January 1910 if I ask for a page.
BEAUTIFUL handwriting.
(But I am dedicated to Jamestown (1844) ;))
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Thanks Randi and Hanibal. We have a formidable team working on the Bear!
Jan
21 is where I am, Randi. This is the 3rd stream and I am the only one
in it so far today. Yesterday I did some Unalga pages until Silvia
stopped because we were doing the same pages.
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Yes, we do have quite a great team - Silvia, Craig, myself and Jil!
This is the biggest collaboration we have ever done on OW, and I am very proud to be a part of it. 8)
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In June 1910, there's some stuff about a lost schooner.
On the 20th, they recieved word about the schooner being missing (at 1:30 pm).
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol101/vol101_175_1.jpg
The
next day, they found the schooner was totally wrecked, but all the
people were saved. They managed to salvage some baggage and cargo.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol101/vol101_176_1.jpg
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8)
http://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-by-area/west-central-alaska-shipwrecks-2/west-central-alaska-shipwrecks-j/
(There are three different JOE MATHEWS listed there.)
There is a "Leave a Reply" option at the end perhaps you could add links to the Bear's log book pages and mention OW?
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There is a "Leave a Reply" option at the end perhaps you could add links to the Bear's log book pages and mention OW?
No, sorry. When I clicked on that link, I got the message attached:
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Too bad :P
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Received
from Wholesale Typewriter Company, 1 Underwood Typewriter for use of
Wardroom as authorized by Department letter of April 11, 1910.
It seems to me this is the second typewriter they have ordered. Too bad they didn't get one for the log keeper ;D
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol101/vol101_119_1.jpg
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Too bad indeed.
Independence Day celebrations, 1910: Infantry section went ashore to participate in parade!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol102/vol102_009_1.jpg
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8)
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May 7, 1910
Half Masted national ensign upon learning of death of King Edward VII of England.
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Interesting - I didn't know American sailors would pay attention to
that, at least not in those days, before the Anglo-American alliance was
forged in the fires of WW 1.
Well, now I know.
You're
getting closer to me every day, Craig - I'm at July 1910 now, and I've
been very busy with coursework and other things recently, leaving very
little time for OW.
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Yes, I was surprised too about Americans paying respect to the
British. You may have noticed that there are few British ships in
Alaskan waters too.
I am plodding along and Jil is helping out too so we aren't trailing too far behind you. I guess Silvia is out in front now.
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A good way to get teenagers to tidy their rooms? ;D
Mid - 4am:-
M. Yajima and M. Magbanoa, 1st class boys, stood two hour watch as punishment for untidiness of bunks after repeated warnings.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol101/vol101_149_1.jpg
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The Boys are definitely being boys!
M. Bohia, first class boy, stood two hour watch for smoking in violation of regulations.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol101/vol101_152_1.jpg
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;D
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Watch this space for an important announcement ;D
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???
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Indeed! ;D
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jil passes the 25,000 mark!
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:)
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Yea, Jil! 8)
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lollia paolina passes
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
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That's our captain 8) 8) 8) Way to go, Silvia!
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Well done, Captain!
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Wow. 100.000 WR on a single ship. No one has ever done that before. No one has even come close to doing that before.
Silvia,
I am very impressed at your achievement. You are an inspiration to us
all, your dedication and productiveness second to none.
And you haven't let it go to your head either - you're humble, friendly and a very much appreciated member of the OW community.
It
has been a pleasure and an honor to serve with you, and I very much
look forward to continuing to do in the months and years to come.
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Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and pictures :) :)
You all have been exceedingly kind :) :)
Silvia
:) :) :)
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Only 10% left to transcribe! :)
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It appears I am sharing a stream with somebody again.
Last night, I got up to the weather page of August 1st, 1910 before shutting down.
Now, I get the Events page of August 7th.
But I don't mind. I haven't got much time for transcribing right now because my course has entered another theoretical phase.
So
I sometimes have long days, and even when I don't, I have to revise and
practice problems and stuff. Plus, I do need and want to relax a bit.
I
might be able to contribute a few pages in the evening every now and
then (like on weekends), but it looks like you'll be doing a lot of the
remaining 10% without me.
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I am up to August 31st, Hanibal, thanks to Jil and some unknown transcriber who hasn't yet broken into the top 12.
Keep focusing on your courses and don't worry about transcribing. You can always transcribe after.
The Bear will soon be heading down south for the winter and we will get some lighter work, which will be a relief.
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Hanibal,
The 1st to 7th August was definitely me.
90% complete - woot! Go team! etc.etc.
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Received on board the following wireless outfit transferred from
wrecked R.C. "Perry": 3 boxes storage batteries, 4 cells in each box; 1
induction coil; 2 small Leyden Jars; 1 key condenser; 1 resistance box ,
and 1 switch board (By authority of Commanding Officer Bering Sea
Fleet)
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol102/vol102_076_1.jpg
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Take a bit of shore leave Hanibal!
Right now your classes are more important, and you don't want to get burned out.
There will still be ships when you come back!
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Finally, in Sausalito beginning about November 15, 1910 there are only 12 WRs per page 8) ;D
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91% complete - yeah!
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I am up to August 31st, Hanibal, thanks to Jil and some unknown transcriber who hasn't yet broken into the top 12.
That may or may not be me. Decided to switch over here as the ship I was doing started to have really long faded event pages.
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You are very welcome to join us, Tastiger. We're making a big push to finish the Bear. I hope to see you in the top 12 soon.
As you have seen, the event pages are quite readable here.
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Feb. 19, 1911
3:00
received following wireless message from Commander Blue, Chief of Staff
to Admiral Thomas:- Commanding Officer, R.C. "Bear" I have just
received information that the filibustering expedition will leave San
Diego sometime to-night to go to Mexico to take part in the revolution.
Ten of these men belong to Navy and Marine Corps. They are to meet at
some saloon, possibly the Red Flag, at seven o'clock to make
arrangements to get across the border or to go by boat. This information
was given out by one of our men who was in the deal but changed his
mind. Will you please take all possible steps to apprehend these people.
Please inform Collector of Customs, U.S. Marshal and Chief of Police.
It is believed they intend to go by boat. Blue."
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol103/vol103_055_1.jpg
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Quite a thriller!
Welcome on board tastiger!
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Nice to see you here, tastiger!
As Craig said, we are indeed
very close to finishing the Bear. I peeked ahead, and the furthest I
could get via URL editing was December 31st, 1912 - looks like it stops
there.
I am currently at Feb 1911, just behind Craig, so it won't take me long to finish my stream.
Not
sure which stream you're in, but I don't think it's mine because I
haven't missed any pages for quite a while (so Jil must be in a
different stream too).
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92% complete - full steam ahead!
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Nice to see you here, tastiger!
As
Craig said, we are indeed very close to finishing the Bear. I peeked
ahead, and the furthest I could get via URL editing was December 31st,
1912 - looks like it stops there.
I am currently at Feb 1911, just behind Craig, so it won't take me long to finish my stream.
Not
sure which stream you're in, but I don't think it's mine because I
haven't missed any pages for quite a while (so Jil must be in a
different stream too).
In early March, so probably not.
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I have a feeling I'm a bit slow...
http://oldweather.org/transcriptions/53d039a189e4e1383f00766f/edit
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I was slow too when I transcribed EVERYTHING ;)
I finally gave up on it - though I still do a lot.
Transcribing everything is great if you want to do it, but it is optional.
I'll PM you some more detailed comments.
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Yeah, transcribing the events does slow you down. I don't do any at
all except for mentions of sea ice, because that's for the science and
not the history.
Since then, my speed has increased by a lot - right now, I'm facing a lot of 12 WR pages, and I can do one in 1.5 - 2 minutes.
At this rate, I'll have my stream finished in less than a month.
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Few transcribers can match Hannibal for speed ;)
I am at least an order of magnitude slower on the WR pages ::),
and sometimes far more than that on the Remarks pages :P
I just keep plugging along ;D
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Aired bedding and sprayed bunk curtains and bunks on berth deck with solution of bi-chloride of mercury. :o
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol103/vol103_114_1.jpg
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It would successfully kill germs - unfortunately, add 'etc.'. :-\
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From June 2nd - September 6th, 1911, the Bear is at sea nearly all
the time and always has 24 WR / day (I'm at July 1st - I just peeked
ahead)
This sure is tough going, but at least we're getting close to the end - we just hit 93%!
Few transcribers can match Hannibal for speed ;)
Yes,
that is true - like my avatar, I am the fastest of my kind, but not the
most hard-working (that would be Silvia, of course) due to laziness.
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Reindeer make a welcome return! ;D
25th June 1911 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol103/vol103_181_1.jpg
12:30 Executive Officer, Mr. Evans, interpreter and reindeer boys went ashore to get reindeer.
4:30, Executive Officer returned aboard with first load of reindeer.
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Sheldon Jackson would be pleased.
The log keeper is
fastidious now. Not only is he recording 24 hour reports while in port
but he is not using dittos in the cloud type so that I can't even use
autohotkey. I would like to have a word with him ;D
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Hanibal94 passes the 50,000 mark!
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8) Excellent work!
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"Commissioner investigated Case of Sally Aug-Ni-Nah, a Native Man,
charged with incest Unable to Secure Sufficient evidence to insure
conviction at Nome Confined him in brig in order that he might not
entirely escape punishment"
Next line:
"Thomas Okpowrok and Mattie Agamowak were married by the Reverend Dr. Goodman"
Talk about a varied day...
July 24th, 1911
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There is always a lot going on with the natives. I really enjoyed
John Muir's account in his Voyage of the Corwin. He was very good in
describing their way of life.
Way to go, Hanibal! I thought we
might both reach our next landmark (or seamark) at the same time but you
steamed ahead of me. ;D
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An agreement between Mr. Brower, manager of whaling station at Point
Barrow, and the natives he agreed to employ. I mention it here
because I didn't transcribe it.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol104/vol104_036_1.jpg
It
is exceptional that there is no ice at Point Barrow this visit. August
3, 1911. Often, the Bear has trouble getting in and out.
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8) Excellent work!
Way
to go, Hanibal! I thought we might both reach our next landmark (or
seamark) at the same time but you steamed ahead of me. ;D
Thanks! I love reaching them milestones.
I
believe this will be my last one on the Bear, though, because if she
finishes on Dec 31st 1912 like I think she does, there won't be enough
WR left for me to break the 60.000 mark as well. That would require 24
WR/day all the time for what's left, and I know from peeking ahead that
this is not the case.
Ah well. Finishing the Bear, a ship I have
been on for almost two years in real world time now, will be a huge
achievement by itself.
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Awesome job, Craig! 8)
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It's just like ageing. I can't help it ;D
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8) Well done, Craig!
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21st August 1911 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol104/vol104_056_1.jpg
10:00,
Executive Officer and Mr Evans went ashore to investigate condition of
"Redfield". "Redfield" ashore, hard and fast, inside of bar, about a
mile to the westward of the village, heavy surf breaking over bar and
around the schooner.
1:00, Executive Officer returned aboard;
reported "Redfield" hopelessly ashore, grounded, stem and stern, inside
the breakers, hold filling, cargo being damaged and no effort being made
to save it.
2:00, the swell and current being too heavy for work
with ship's boat, the Commanding Officer sent Executive Officer, with
Boatswain, four men and seven of the natives on board ashore in an
oomiak, to take charge of the "Redfield", make an effort to save part of
its cargo, with the assistance of Mr Evans and the Cape Prince of Wales
natives, and to stand-by the vessel until weather abated.
Some
more info from wrecksite (http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?216902) and
Alaska Shipwrecks
(http://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-f/) with
mentions of Bear. :)
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All human life is here!
22nd August 1911 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol104/vol104_057_1.jpg
9:40, born to Kananak, wife of Kag Mayack, a daughter.
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Quote
'10:00, Executive Officer and Mr Evans went ashore to
investigate condition of "Redfield". "Redfield" ashore, hard and fast,
inside of bar, about a mile to the westward of the village, heavy surf
breaking over bar'
Sounds good till you read the rest. ;D
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Whew... what a day. Despite having 4.5 hours of classes and working
at home for 2 hours, I still found the time to transcribe all of
October, November AND December 1911.
I gained 1721 WR in the process - personal record!
I also discovered that the copy log for July - Dec 1911 (Volume 104) was not removed. I shall click through it tomorrow.
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Wow! That's a busy day, Hanibal. That's about 4 days transcribing for me.
From
what you wrote I calculated that there were only about 36 of the 90
pages that were 12 WRs. I hope January to June 1912 will be easier.
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And that explains how we got to 94% - woo hoo!
(I'm not going to say how many days weeks of transcribing that would be for me)
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And that explains how we got to 94% - woo hoo!
(I'm not going to say how many days weeks of transcribing that would be for me)
Me neither!
(months)
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Yes, I am very dedicated now that we're so close to the end (Just
finished clicking my way through the duplicate, and have been presented
with the smooth log of Jan-June 1912).
I am very much looking forward to finishing this ship at last - it's been online for over two years now!
From
what you wrote I calculated that there were only about 36 of the 90
pages that were 12 WRs. I hope January to June 1912 will be easier.
Your calculations are pretty close. All of October and most of November were 24 WR, the rest was 12 or in between.
But 1912 should be better. I peeked ahead and noticed that the log keeper does 12 WR when in any port - not just important ones like Unalaska and Sausalito.
Plus, it looks like the Bear didn't spend as much time in Alaska as she did the previous year. Good news for us!
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95%
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Wow! 8)
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December 23rd 1911 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol104/vol104_181_1.jpg
Through
courtesy of Lieut. Col. Brooks, USA, received permission to cut greens
on Fort Baker reservation, for decoration of vessel.
Very festive!
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Merry Christmas, jil!
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tastiger
Welcome to the top 12 !
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tastiger
Welcome to the top 12 !
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Thanks! And now I'm on the same page as above. :)
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tastiger passes the 500 mark!
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December 25th, 1911 http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol104/vol104_183_1.jpg
8:00AM-4:00PM Observed day as holiday
And that's it. I suppose the lack of works says more than what words could say... (The page has less than usual is what I mean).
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;D
Merry Christmas, tastiger.
Several years ago I transcribed Christmas and New Year during Christmas and New Year. I found it very disorienting.
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Good to finally see you in the top 12, Tastiger! I have
noticed you occasionally when a page skips. We are now in 1912 and in
the home stretch with only 3% to go!
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This is excellent news! At the rate we're going, we'll have her done in a week!
I'm at May 8th 1912. She's just left Sausalito for Alaska, so there's now 24 WR per page.
But I will push on anyway. I'm too eager to end this at last.
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Indeed, I will be glad to finish this vessel. We haven't had a vessel completed in a long time.
I
was thinking, while clicking through the duplicate log, that it is
rather strange that we have 3 transcribers copying a copy of the
original. I wonder how reliable the copy log is. It's a bit late now,
but it seems to me that we should have transcribed the original even
though it's harder to read. It would have been equally hard for the
copier to read. It is possible that someone checked his work?
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So anyone have any plans on which vessel you'll do next? Mine's
Patterson maybe. Or have things changed since I took a break?
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Everybody please keep in mind that propriome (Matteo) wants to do ALL the Unalga pages.
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Yes, we know - at least I do. But since Matteo and I are on separate streams, that won't be a problem in my case.
I'm going for Unalga after the Bear, but I may take a little break first (or not). She's the last one I still need to finish.
After that, I'll be free to go wherever I like.
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Holy Guacamole! After finishing Jan - June 1912, I got flung all the way back to April 1892!
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_001_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_001_1.jpg
These
logs have a format I though I would never see again: 24 WR per day even
when in port, but only the even hours have barometer and temperature
readings.
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So we have Jan-Jun 1912 and April-Dec 1892 left?
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tastiger passes the 750 mark!
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98%
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;D
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Storming along!
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Prepare the sad violin music...
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_080_1.jpg
4:00AM to 8:00AM
Hauled
various courses around SE end of San Clemente and examined Smugglers'
Cove. The old Swell still breaking in the Cove did not land.
Seeing no sign of life on the shore turned and stood back around SE end
of island then to Northwestward along shore. At 7:45 Stood in
Close to examine hut on shore in log (494), and stopped and Sent in boat
with officer and Inspector Bernard
10:30, Stopped off Wilson's
Cove and Sent in boat with officer and Inspector Bernard to
investigate. Found two men, Austin E and Lester C Freeman, who had
been wrecked in the Sloop "Dora" of San Pedro, Sunday, March 10, at
Northwest Harbor. The Captain of the Sloop "Chips" Bensnan was
drowned. The body was recovered and buried by the Freemans. Took
the two men aboard at their request for transportation to San
Pedro. The Sloop is total wreck and beyond assistance.
Plus also the first "continued" log page of remarks I've seen...
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tastiger passes the 1000 mark!
WOW!
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Way to go, Tastiger! We'll be finished in no time.
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tastiger passes the 1000 mark!
WOW!
;D
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Just curious, where is everyone else in the logs? Curious on if
anyone reached the end or not, if they are in my stream, or blah blah
blah. :D
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If I ask for a page, I get 7 May 1912.
(I didn't do it though ;))
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7th May 1912 for me which is where I was up to yesterday.
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I guess there are two streams going on (May 16th for me), which kind
of confuses me considering I though Hanibal and lollia took two, but
whatever. :)
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Craig and I have been similarly confused recently. As we knew that
Hanibal was way ahead to we had to come to the conclusion that we'd
caught up with lollia, difficult as that was to get our heads around!
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Craig
and I have been similarly confused recently. As we knew that Hanibal
was way ahead to we had to come to the conclusion that we'd caught up
with lollia, difficult as that was to get our heads around!
Lollia
didn't complete a ship? I thought she/he (I'm guessing she) would be
done with all the ships by now. ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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I get July 9th, 1892 (The log goes from April 28th - December 13th 1892).
Since this one is all 24 WR (but only even hours have barometer and temperature readings), it will take slightly longer.
This business with the streams does sound rather confusing. Me, I'll just keep going for as long as I can, and see what happens.
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I finished at April 27 1912 yesterday and now it's May 16. I think Jil, Tastiger and I are in the same stream.
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From what I have experienced in the past, if two (or more) people in the third (i.e. last) stream are transcribing at the same time they
can will get the same pages.
If A requests a page s/he will get the next page available e.g., 7 May 1912 weather.
If B then requests a page before A has clicked done, s/he will get the next page available e.g., 7 May 1912 weather.
If A has clicked done, then both will get 7 May 1912 remarks.
When
this came up some time back, Philip said that ALL transcriptions are
kept even if there are more than three. Nonetheless, perhaps some
coordination is in order ;)
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By some coincidence we all seem to be transcribing at different
times. Jil finishes before I begin (about 11 AM GMT) and I think
Tastiger begins after me ( about 3 PM GMT).
Since we are almost
at 99% complete and the third stream has more than two log books to
complete, I would guess that Silvia is almost finished - in any case,
she is well ahead of the 3rd stream.
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By
some coincidence we all seem to be transcribing at different times. Jil
finishes before I begin (about 11 AM GMT) and I think Tastiger begins
after me ( about 3 PM GMT).
Since we are almost at 99% complete
and the third stream has more than two log books to complete, I would
guess that Silvia is almost finished - in any case, she is well ahead of
the 3rd stream.
For
me 3PM GMT is 10:00 AM if my calculations are correct (so Jil 6-10) so
yeah talk about coincidence. I'll make sure to start after 10:00 :) But
I'm taking a break today-14th for my trip to Japan, but I'll be back if
it isn't done yet. :)
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Have a safe trip and have fun!
Just remember that if you don't report back on time we will send Maikel's bounty hunters after you ;D
U.S.S. Yorktown - At anchor Nagasaki, Japan.
28-06-1895 - 4 to 8 p.m.
Private
Anthony was brought on board by the U.S. Marshall, 34 hours overtime,
and a reward of twenty yen was paid for his delivery on board.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Yorktown/vol013of040_jpg_clean/vol013of040_197_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Yorktown/vol013of040_jpg_clean/vol013of040_197_1.jpg)
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Have a safe trip and have fun!
Just remember that if you don't report back on time we will send Maikel's bounty hunters after you ;D
U.S.S. Yorktown - At anchor Nagasaki, Japan.
28-06-1895 - 4 to 8 p.m.
Private
Anthony was brought on board by the U.S. Marshall, 34 hours overtime,
and a reward of twenty yen was paid for his delivery on board.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Yorktown/vol013of040_jpg_clean/vol013of040_197_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Yorktown/vol013of040_jpg_clean/vol013of040_197_1.jpg)
:D
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For
me 3PM GMT is 10:00 AM if my calculations are correct (so Jil 6-10) so
yeah talk about coincidence. I'll make sure to start after 10:00 :) But
I'm taking a break today-14th for my trip to Japan, but I'll be back if
it isn't done yet. :)
Have a good trip, tastiger!
I'm pretty sure we'll have the Bear done by the time you return, though. She just reached 99% - mainly due to me transcribing 2305 WR in a single day (new personal record!)
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Wooo Hooo!! :D
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For
me 3PM GMT is 10:00 AM if my calculations are correct (so Jil 6-10) so
yeah talk about coincidence. I'll make sure to start after 10:00 :) But
I'm taking a break today-14th for my trip to Japan, but I'll be back if
it isn't done yet. :)
Have a good trip, tastiger!
I'm pretty sure we'll have the Bear done by the time you return, though. She just reached 99% - mainly due to me transcribing 2305 WR in a single day (new personal record!)
Thanks, hopefully, and congrats! :D
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4:00-6:00PM
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_164_1.jpg
Received on board empty casket for the deceased child of Mr and Mrs Hawkes, Diomede Island
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Rest in Peace, little one. This "freight" has to be hard on the crew.
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June 10th 1912 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_169_1.jpg
2:55,
Picked up message for Senior Captain W.E. Reynolds notifying him as to
the great disaster at Kodiak. Made course South, log (30.0) to relay
message.
Katmai
volcano
(http://www3.gendisasters.com/alaska/20314/kodiak-ak-katmai-volcano-explosion-june-1912)
- Manning gets lots of mentions.
And from Alaska Volcano
Observatory (https://www.avo.alaska.edu/Katmai2012/) - who describe it
as the largest eruption of the 20th century :o
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Largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century? Wow!
And yet, I've never heard of that one before - probably because it was in such a remote location.
Despite the magnitude of the eruption, no deaths directly resulted.
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June 13th 1912 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_172_1.jpg
Found volcano smoking to N'd of King's Cove, Dear Id. Passage - Probably part of chain adjacent to Pavlof Volcano
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June 10th 1912 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_169_1.jpg
2:55,
Picked up message for Senior Captain W.E. Reynolds notifying him as to
the great disaster at Kodiak. Made course South, log (30.0) to relay
message.
Katmai
volcano
(http://www3.gendisasters.com/alaska/20314/kodiak-ak-katmai-volcano-explosion-june-1912)
- Manning gets lots of mentions.
And from Alaska Volcano
Observatory (https://www.avo.alaska.edu/Katmai2012/) - who describe it
as the largest eruption of the 20th century :o
Neat!
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I just came across the longest weather code I have ever seen, at 7 pm on this page: bcqhtls
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_213_0.jpg
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Mainly due to me transcribing 2305 WR in a single day (new personal record!)
...three
months of weather reports in a single day?! And I thought I was fast
when I occasionally managed to do a week's worth in an evening...
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...And I thought I was fast when I occasionally managed to do a week's worth in an evening...
That is fast by my standards ;)
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June 15th 1912 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol105/vol105_174_1.jpg
At
5:00, noticed large patches of white volcanic dust on surface of water,
in size from fine particles to size of a walnut, resembling pumice
stone.
Mr. Gundersen, of the Alaska Packers, who reported that no
damage whatever was done in this vicinity and that there was no damage
or loss of life from Alitak Bay to the East end of the island. He
further stated that the people across the strait at Katmai, Kukuk Bay
and Douglas Village near the entrance to Cook's Inlet, had been brought
across by various craft during the past few days
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I'm all done! I just transcribed December 12th 1892, and got the message that means I can't do anymore!
Woo hoo hoo! After two whole years of real time, I am done with the Bear at last!
I
shall now rest for a few days, and then head for the Unalga. She is now
the last ship I have already started but not finished, so I am bound by
honor to focus all my attention on her.
At least the full 24 WR are quite rare on her - rarer than on the Bear. That'll be fun.
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Not just finished, but
(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-060.gif) Hanibal94 passes the 60,000 mark! (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Respect/respect-061.gif)
Congratulations ! ! !
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Well done, Hanibal!
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Lieutenant and Chief Speed Freak Hanibal94 honorably discharged this
day due to completion of work, granted 3 days leave and received orders
to present self to USGC Unalga at end of leave.
Lieutenant was last seen heading for local lakes.
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Lieutenant
and Chief Speed Freak Hanibal94 honorably discharged this day due to
completion of work, granted 3 days AWOL and received orders to present
self to USGC Unalga at end of leave.
Lieutenant was last seen heading for local lakes.
Congratulations on your new record Hanibal :)
Enjoy your vacation :)
Silvia :)
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That's a prodigious feat, Hanibal! You deserve a break.
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Tastiger and Jil were busy on my day off so now we (the third
stream) are in May 1894. The pages are slanted and sometimes the
last column is cut off but at least I can use autohotkey to fill in the
blanks and dittos for the odd hours.
Tastiger, it sounds like you are in the same time zone as me - Eastern daylight (GMT-5)?
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Tastiger is on leave in Japan.
He is due to report back on the 14'th.
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Lieutenant Hanibal94 was last seen making a dash for local lakes ;D
NOT AWOL though! ;)
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Tastiger
and Jil were busy on my day off so now we (the third stream) are in May
1894. The pages are slanted and sometimes the last column is cut
off but at least I can use autohotkey to fill in the blanks and dittos
for the odd hours.
Have you tried opening the corresponding Events page in another tab? That sometimes helped me.
NOT AWOL though! ;)
Whaddya mean, no AWOL?! Captain Silvia approved my break!
But
then again, it doesn't really matter because it is extremely unlikely
that Maikel's bounty hunters could catch a sky-blue pegasus with a
rainbow mane and tail whose top speed has been scientifically proven to
be Mach 10.
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Tastiger
and Jil were busy on my day off so now we (the third stream) are in May
1894. The pages are slanted and sometimes the last column is cut
off but at least I can use autohotkey to fill in the blanks and dittos
for the odd hours.
Tastiger, it sounds like you are in the same time zone as me - Eastern daylight (GMT-5)?
I'm GMT-6, and that wasn't me, like Randi said.
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NOT AWOL though! ;)
Whaddya mean, no AWOL?! Captain Silvia approved my break!
But
then again, it doesn't really matter because it is extremely unlikely
that Maikel's bounty hunters could catch a sky-blue pegasus with a
rainbow mane and tail whose top speed has been scientifically proven to
be Mach 10.
AWOL is Absent WithOut Leave
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/AWOL
You HAVE leave.
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Tastiger
and Jil were busy on my day off so now we (the third stream) are in May
1894. The pages are slanted and sometimes the last column is cut
off but at least I can use autohotkey to fill in the blanks and dittos
for the odd hours.
Try Matteo's Page joining tool - for when the text you are trying to read is split over two pages (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3489.msg62862#msg62862)
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Thanks, Randi. It was only the first few pages that were slanted and
sometimes the numbers didn't even show up on the remarks page. It seems
to be clear sailing now.
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AWOL is Absent WithOut Leave
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/AWOL
You HAVE leave.
OH! I somehow thought it meant AWay On Leave - whoops! :-[
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Well, you should be away on leave ;D What are you doing here?
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Sitting at home because it's raining and I can't go swimming. :'( :'( :'(
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Will the weather be better tomorrow, I hope? :)
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Nope, still cloudy and thunderstorms are expected later. :'(
So
because of this and my "blood lust" getting out of control, I'm gonna
go and start transcribing the Unalga right away. I can't wait any
longer!
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;D
Under the circumstances, Lieut. Hanibal94 is permitted to use his leave days at a later date.
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Reindeer - yeah! ::)
July 15th 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_087_1.jpg
9.30
Sent launch in charge of 2nd Asst. Engr. Falkenstein with Surgeon Call
to procure reindeer. Trading for Columbian Exposition exhibits.
Received on board during watch fifteen (15) reindeer.
4.45 launch returned with six (6) reindeer.
And also a bit of an explanation for:
December 27 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol071/vol071_026_0.jpg
Packing goods for World's Columbian exposition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition)
I wonder what they were sending?
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Yes, I wondered that too. Perhaps some native handicraft if they
hadn't already been totally assimilated into the White culture.
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Showing 100% complete - woo but not (yet) hoo.
I'm getting August 8th 1892, so at least 4 months of log still to do. :(
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I might have to take a couple of days off so you may have the honour of completing it, Jil.
Perhaps they didn't take the last log book into account in their calculation of the total number of pages?
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I think it's just the calculation of the percentage rounding the
number. With a very long log there's quite a lot of pages left when we
reach 99.51% (or whatever point pushes it over from 99% to 100%)
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One of my former directors at work had previously been a professor
at Laval University. Once, he awarded a student the mark of 100% for an
assignment but the computer rejected it - the program only accepted 2
digits. We are often at the mercy of programmers' assumptions. But in
this case the advantage is to us. Perhaps we should just accept that the
Bear is complete and go on to another ship ;D
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Did.... did somebody just suggest giving up ? Even though we're at over 99.5% ? THAT IS EXTRA EXTRA HERESY! DON'T MAKE ME *BLAM* YOU!
Get back to your post and finish what's left! No giving up! No backing down! No surrender!
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;D ;D ;D
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In 30 hours (give or take) ill be back on duty so as an insentive,
if we are done by then ill do 4 months Patterson before anything else :p
If
this doesnt sound right this is me trying to join the joshing or
whatever its called. Also using the forum with a phone is not easy...
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Nice of you to drop in!
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We may leave you a couple of pages if you hurry back, Tastiger. ;D
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The actual crew are abandonning ship. You wouldn't get us being tempted away by better pecuniary positions!
At St. Michaels, Alaska:
September 13th 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_149_1.jpg
Discharged at their own request T. Long, coxswain and E. Maynard fireman to permit them to accept better pecuniary positions.
September 14th 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_150_1.jpg
Discharged J. Finney at his own request to enable him to accept a better pecuniary position.
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Not in your life. The pay is too good here. ;D
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;D
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jil passes the 30,000 mark!
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Bravo, Jil! You made it just in time with only two months to go to completion.
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Yeah! I thought we might run out of logs before I got there.
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Well I've reached the end of the Bear logs and I think I'm third transcriber, so we may be done.
I
won't quite splice the mainbrace yet in case we've not finished (and it
9am here so a little early - maybe some chocolate cake ... mmm that
works ;) )
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Well I've reached the end of the Bear logs and I think I'm third transcriber, so we may be done.
I
won't quite splice the mainbrace yet in case we've not finished (and it
9am here so a little early - maybe some chocolate cake ... mmm that
works ;) )
Im getting November 24th, so not done. Ill try to get to them when i wake up. :)
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It doesn't say VAL, so I would say it isn't done yet.
Methinks
tastiger got thrown into the one stream that isn't finished - so when he
does those last few weeks (December 12th is the last day), she will be
completely done.
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Well the cake was to celebrate me finishing then.
That means I can have more when we're completely done. :) :) :)
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;D
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My voyage on board Bear is over :) :) :)
There must be a few pages left and I hope they will be added soon :)
Perhaps tastiger will be able to do that :)
:) :) :)
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It must be done because when I click on transcribe I am sent to another ship.
Congratulations to All !
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Same thing with me - I also get sent to another ship, even thought the button still says "Transcribe logs".
I
think we had a similar problem with the last few ships to be finished:
They didn't hit VAL automatically, the tech team had to go and do it
manually.
I'll
tell the PTB to change her [Unalga II] to VAL - she is DONE. When
I go to transcribe, I get sent to Albatross. :D
WE DID IT! THE BEAR IS DONE AT LAST! WOOHOO!
(http://www.macslocalbuys.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rainbow-party.jpg)
Congratulations to all those who worked on her, especially Silvia, Craig, Rainbow Dash me, DennisO, Jil, Stuart and tastiger. At 340.589 WR, this is the largest victory in OW history - more than twice as many WR as the seven previous completed Phase 3 ships combined. That's a lot of data.
I am very proud to have been a part of this, and I look forward to further victories in the future.
Hanibal94 (currently serving on Unalga, hoping to have finished work on her by then end of the year)
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I have duly notified the PTB ;)
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Excellent news, well done to everyone - virtual cake all round!!!!!!
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Congratulations all! A wonderful accomplishment, and a huge thank you!
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Darn it overslept. Congrats to everyone! :D
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Wouldn't you know it, I went away for one day and look what happens. ;D
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It would be interesting to see if that is repeatable ;)
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The actual crew are abandonning ship. You wouldn't get us being tempted away by better pecuniary positions!
At St. Michaels, Alaska:
September 13th 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_149_1.jpg
Discharged at their own request T. Long, coxswain and E. Maynard fireman to permit them to accept better pecuniary positions.
September 14th 1892 - http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol72/vol072_150_1.jpg
Discharged J. Finney at his own request to enable him to accept a better pecuniary position.
Whilst
looking up some other shipping news, I found some articles that
mentioned wage troubles on the Bear
(http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19000506.2.115&srpos=10&e=------190-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-bear+tuttle------)
- perhaps we ought to strike and get Randi to negotiate better pay for
us transcribers!
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Perhaps a 10% raise? ;D
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An excellent deal!
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Interesting find Danny!
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And having reached the end of the Bear's logs, I think it's quite
fitting to see her entry into the US Navy
(http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18840201.2.13&srpos=1&e=--1884-----en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-greeley+bear------#)
:)
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For those who don't want to leave Bear, part of her logs are already available for editing on Naval History. :)
www.naval-history.net/OW-US/USAShipsIndex.htm (http://www.naval-history.net/OW-US/USAShipsIndex.htm)
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Or, we could do the Thetis, another Revenue Cutter in the Pacific
Fleet that often tags along with the Bear. It's only 15% complete.
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Or if you want a complete change, you'd be most welcome aboard
Pioneer - no risk of running out of her logs for some time yet
.... :D
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That's tempting, Helen. It only has 7 WRs per page when in port, Unlike the Thetis. It is doing surveys, like the Yukon.
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Or Patterson like me for small comment sections and small weathet readings. :D
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That's tempting, Helen. It only has 7 WRs per page when in port, Unlike the Thetis. It is doing surveys, like the Yukon.
Please
let yourself be tempted - it would be so good to make some rather more
rapid progress. And yes she does surveys - so at the moment (I've
reached 1928) I'm using the Pacific Pilot of 1931 to which she must have
contributed when I'm trying to track down place names, which is rather
satisfying.
And as an extra incentive, hanibal has noted all the
lists of officers, and I'm sending in all the crew changes for the men
as I come across them, so as long as I remain ahead of you, you don't
need to bother with them, thus increasing your transcription rate.
;D
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Helen's right. She's done a most excellent job as First Lieutenant
on the Pioneer - the only way it could be better would be if she gave up
editing and devoted 100% of her OW time to transcribing, like me
;D.
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Thank you for your kind words, Cap'n. But I'm not going to be
lured away from my editing .... I enjoy the variety too much.
I am getting towards the end of Hibernia - but I know that as soon as I send her in I'll be begging for another file.
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I have an envelope mailed on board the USS Bear on 10 September
1942. I can send or post a scan if anyone is interested. I
would very much like to know where the ship was in September 1942.
Is a log available? Thank you.
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We'd love to see a scan, if you have it. At the moment we only
have the first half of Bear's logs, going from 1884 to 1912. Her
total history is summarized on our history site,
http://naval-history.net/OW-US/Bear/USRC_Bear.htm
A sealer
launched in 1874, she went to Greenland for the Navy in 1884, and was
then transferred to the Revenue Cutter Service (now the Coast Guard),
then decommissioned from the Coast Guard in 1929, and given to Oakland,
CA, as a museum ship. Purchased by Admiral Richard Byrd, USN, in
the 1930s, she went to the Antarctic with him (as a privately owned
ship) for both the 1933-34 and 1939-41 expeditions. In WW2 the
Navy recommissioned her and put her on Greenland patrol. A very
long-lived interesting ship.
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Sorry for the delay in posting the scan as I was away from home on
holidays. In any event, here it is. Does a log exist for
1942? Is it possible to get a scan of the ship's movements in
September 1942? Thanks.
Kevin O'Reilly
Yellowknife Canada
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Does a log exist for 1942?
There is a log for at least part of 1942
Is it possible to get a scan of the ship's movements in September 1942?
Keep checking the forum.
You should be able to get access to the ship's log pages.
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Yelloknife1 I have sent you a PM with a link to the Sept. 1942 logs for the USS Bear.
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Many thanks for kindly looking up this log book and posting the
pages. The envelope that I scanned and posted was mailed when the
Bear was at Coral Harbour on Southampton Island, Northwest Territories,
Canada. This was the site of a US air base that was used as part
of the Crimson Project to ferry aircraft and troops to Europe via a
northern air route.
Kevin O'Reilly
Yellowknife NWT
Canada
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Concord said, "Hi!" when we met you in Dutch Harbor on 01 and 02 August, 1903.
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Bear to the rescue... http://alaskaweb.org/maritime/jasallenwreck.html
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919218/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol075/26-159A-bear-vol075_058.jpg
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919218/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol075/26-159A-bear-vol075_060.jpg
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Bear to the rescue... http://alaskaweb.org/maritime/jasallenwreck.html
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919218/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol075/26-159A-bear-vol075_058.jpg
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919218/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol075/26-159A-bear-vol075_060.jpg
Oh my goodness....what horrors and deprivations. :'( :'(
Hurrah for the Bear! :D :D
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The BEAR is laying out Melville-Bryant Drift Casks in 1901...
http://www.geographicalsociety.org/New/archive/drift-cask-project/
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Ran across a mention of the 'submarine sentry' in the Bear 1914 log
while editing ice obs. It is a kite that swims below the ship at a given
guard depth (12 ftms in this case) that will sound a gong if it hits
the bottom, hence warning of shoal water. I've never heard of this
device before. Described in detail in this 1891 text from Science
magazine (page down):
https://archive.org/stream/jstor-1765472/1765472_djvu.txt
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8) 8) 8)
Thanks, Kevin!
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Sorry
for the delay in posting the scan as I was away from home on
holidays. In any event, here it is. Does a log exist for
1942? Is it possible to get a scan of the ship's movements in
September 1942? Thanks.
Kevin O'Reilly
Yellowknife Canada
Available in the National Archives: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7794798
The
link for 10 Sept is:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/7794798/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/594258-navy-deck-logs/batch-y/Bear-AG-29-1942-09/Bear-AG-29-1942-09-0015.jpg
Location: Coral Harbour, Southampton Island
http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/OAPJN
Oops! :-[ :-[ :-[
In my haste to reply, I failed to note that Kevin had already replied.
If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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Looking through the 1884 Bear log for ice hunting found the following harrowing stuff.
The logbook link is https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6919159 pages 102 onwards if you want further details.
Greely Arctic Rescue Mission
22nd June 1884
About
8 party under Lieut Taunt(?) discovered a cairn on Brevoost(?) Island
containing records of Lieut Greely stating that on 26th October 1883 he
established permanent camp halfway between Cocked Hat Island and Cape
Sabine, having at that time 40 days rations. Got under way at once,
Comd'r Schley coming on board this ship. Steam launch in meantime
found camp of Lieut Greely's party, landed finding Lieut Greely + six
men alive. The remainder of party dead of starvation. Comd'r
Schley and Lieut Emory landed at once with surgeon of ship, medical
stores and provisions.
Sergts Fredericks, Long, and Ellison U.S.Signal Corps of the Greely party came on board.
23rd June 1884
Lying
to off camp of Lieut Greely and communicating by whale boats and steam
launch with the shore to bring off survivors of the Greely expedition as
well a records, relics+c. Latter named articles as soon as
brought on board, were collected and put together, some in main hold +
some in cabin. received on board Sergts Long, Frederick, +
Ellison, the first two in a very weak condition; the last having both
feet frozen off as well as the fingers and thumbs of both hands, and he
was very weak and much exhausted.
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Wow!
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June 27
At 6 while forcing way through between two large
floes, Hans the Esquimo jumped over the side and ran towards the glacier
about two miles distant. Started with the ship full speed to head
him off. Steamed as far as we could + sent two men in chase, and
being fresh, soon overtook him + brought him alongside. During the
chase one man fell through the ice up to his neck but with the
assistance of his chum was soon out. Hans could give no
explanation of his conduct and when brought on board was placed in
single irons for safe keeping.
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July 5th 1884 Godhaven Harbor, Greenland
The surgeons of
the Thetis and the Alert came aboard and assisted the surgeon of this
ship in operating on Sergt Ellison U.S. Signal Corps.
July 8th 1884 Godhaven Harbor, Greenland
Joseph Ellison (Corporal 10th U.S. Infantry), member of Lt. Greely's party, received at Cape Sabine, died at 3.30
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June 8th 1887 Belkofski, Shumagin Islds
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 25
Mr
C.H.Hastings fisherman, came on board requesting passage to Ounalaska,
as he desired to deliver himself up to the U.S authorities for shooting
and killing a man, as he claims, in self defence.
The
medical officer of the ship, on visiting the settlement, found much
sickness among the inhabitants. Rendered all possible assistance
by attending the sick and supplying them with medicine
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June 30th 1887 Ounalaska Harbor
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 47
Alaska
Commercial Co's steamer "Dora" arrived from St Michaels, bringing the
information of the murder of right Rev. Segiers, formerly arch Bishop of
Portland, O. by Frank Fuller, now at large at St Micheals. Comdg.
Officer was requested by judge J.Johnson to arrest and bring the
murderer to justice and with the approval of Comdg. officer, 3'
Lieutenant C.W.Kennedy was sworn in as deputy marshal to perform that
duty
July 6 1887 St Michaels
image 53
Lieut Kennedy with armed boats crew went on shore to arrest Frank Fuller for the murder of Right Rev. Segiers
at 7.15 Lieut Kennedy returned with prisoner
July 7 1887 St Michaels
image 54
3'Lieut
Kennedy went on shore and brought on board George Senika witness in the
murder case of Right Rev Seegers to be carried to Ounalaska
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July 9 1887 Port Clarence
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 56
Received
information that two survivors of wrecked Whaling Bark Napoleon, were
detained by indian tribe at or in the vicinity of Cape Navarin.
July 14 1887 Cape Navarin
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 61
at
6.15 sent boat on shore in charge of 1'Lieut to obtain if possible
information of J.B.Vinsent, a wrecked sailor. supposed to be in
the vicinity of Cape Navarin
July 15 1887 Cape Navarin
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 62
at 5.40 boat in charge of 1st Lieut went ashore to continue the search of yesterday
July 16 1887
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 63
at
7.50 boat in charge of 1st Lieut left the ship to pull close along
ashore to look for traces of habitation Vessel steaming slowly
Southd along the land
Steaming to Sd. along the land.
Keeping lookout aloft at 9.20 saw natives on the beach having
signal hoisted to attract attention, steamed closer in shore and at 9.30
in 6 3/4 faths of water came to anchor and veered to 25 faths on
starboard chain sent 2d cutter in charge of Lieut Kennedy on
shore at 11.15 both cutters returned, bringing one native to act
as guide and information that a white man could be found some miles SWd
of Cape Navarin
July 17 1887
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 64
at 3.30 prepared to land a party of officers and men in search of J.B.Vincent
at
4.15 boat with officers and men of the searching party left the
ship issued 50 lbs pork and 20 quarts of beans as a supply for the
party
at 11 boat returned with searching party bringing
J.B.Vincent the survivor of Whaling Bark Napoleon wrecked off the coast
in May 1885.
Sent boats on shore with the following articles for
the natives as a reward for help extended to survivor of Bark Napoleon -
800 lbs bread, 10 gals molasses, 250 lbs flour, 40 lbs pork, 6 quarts
of beans, 1 Rifle 100 cartridges
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July 10 1887 Port Clarence
http://research.archives.gov/description/6919207 image 57
At
9a.m- the master of Bark Pearl, came on board and requested assistance,
the crew of his vessel having refused to go to duty, Sent an officer
and armed boats crew. at 10.30 boats crew returned from Bark
Pearl, after having seen the crew return to duty
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For those interested in the Greely Relief Expedition and ships
(Bear, Thetis, Alert) there are a bunch of photos collected on an old
website of mine here:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/ipy-1/US-LFB-P1.htm
and a PBS American Experience docu: https://youtu.be/9dJd8uAZB84
Looking through the 1884 Bear log for ice hunting found the following harrowing stuff.
The logbook link is https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6919159 pages 102 onwards if you want further details.
Greely Arctic Rescue Mission
22nd June 1884
About
8 party under Lieut Taunt(?) discovered a cairn on Brevoost(?) Island
containing records of Lieut Greely stating that on 26th October 1883 he
established permanent camp halfway between Cocked Hat Island and Cape
Sabine, having at that time 40 days rations. Got under way at once,
Comd'r Schley coming on board this ship. Steam launch in meantime
found camp of Lieut Greely's party, landed finding Lieut Greely + six
men alive. The remainder of party dead of starvation. Comd'r
Schley and Lieut Emory landed at once with surgeon of ship, medical
stores and provisions.
Sergts Fredericks, Long, and Ellison U.S.Signal Corps of the Greely party came on board.
23rd June 1884
Lying
to off camp of Lieut Greely and communicating by whale boats and steam
launch with the shore to bring off survivors of the Greely expedition as
well a records, relics+c. Latter named articles as soon as
brought on board, were collected and put together, some in main hold +
some in cabin. received on board Sergts Long, Frederick, +
Ellison, the first two in a very weak condition; the last having both
feet frozen off as well as the fingers and thumbs of both hands, and he
was very weak and much exhausted.
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1890-06-23
Revenue Steamer "Bear"
Cape Navarin, Siberia
Merid. to 4 PM
Comd'g Officer went ashore to communicate with Indians in regard to Government presents.
4 to 6 PM
Distributed
Government presents among twenty (20) of Indians instrumental in
extending hospitalities to J. B. Vincent and others of Napoleon's Crew.
Sent messengers over country to summon Chiefs of Deermen to meet the
"Bear".
8 PM to Midn.
Deermen Chiefs visited Comd'g Officer
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919210/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol068/26-159A-bear-vol068_058.jpg
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1890-06-24
Revenue Steamer "Bear"
Cape Navarin, Siberia
8 AM to Merid.
Distributed
presents to Woncheat Toiack and the father of Outourak and the mother
of Yardgidigan (Indians named by J. B. Vincent as especially
instrumental in his preservation) and to twenty-five (25) other Deermen
and Indians of the vicinity. Crew handling presents as required.
Merid. to 4 PM
Landed Indians and presents.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/6919210/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-026/585454-noaa/bear/vol068/26-159A-bear-vol068_059.jpg
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Very cool!
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For
those interested in the Greely Relief Expedition and ships (Bear,
Thetis, Alert) there are a bunch of photos collected on an old website
of mine here:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/ipy-1/US-LFB-P1.htm
and a PBS American Experience docu: https://youtu.be/9dJd8uAZB84
I watched the documentary last night. It was very well done.
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there are a bunch of photos
That's an understatement!! ;) ;)
VERY nice, I loose myself in period photos way to easily!!! ;D
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This reply is sadly too late, but as I am currently trawling this
topic I thought to settle a small mystery. The logkeeper of the
Navarch spells 'sled' as 'slade'. The whalers often spell phonetically,
and just to keep you on your toes, not necessarily consistently
so. :)
Can you make out what is written on the last page (October 14th)?
"One glade left the ship with 7 sacks of flour. 12 glade arrived at 4 PM" ???
Sorry, Randi, I was referring to the Navarch log book the Jil found.
I just got to the non-standard Bear logs that Sylvia mentioned on April 24.
The
ship could be around Seattle because the temperatures haven't been much
above 70 in July. Or it could even be farther north because we used to
occasionally get into the 80s in Vancouver.
If fact, having
finished the month of July I am convinced that the Bear must be up
north, perhaps at Unalaska. The highs are in the high 50s or low 60s in
early August.
This page: https://archive.org/stream/logbookofnavarch00nava#page/46/mode/2up ?
Looking at the S in Ship, I think it might be an S rather than a G, but I'm afraid that that doesn't help much.
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This reply is sadly too late, but as I am currently trawling
this topic I thought to settle a small mystery. The logkeeper of
the Navarch spells 'sled' as 'slade'. The whalers often spell
phonetically, and just to keep you on your toes, not necessarily
consistently so. :)
Things are getting badl for the steamer Navarch
Sent
Exec. Officer Lieut. Jarvis to the whaling vessels. Upon his return Lt.
Jarvis reported that the masters of the whaling vessels thought the
situation of the "Navarch" critical and thought that the captain of the
"Navarch" should at least send his wife over the ice where the "Bear"
made to off where the vessel was fast.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USRC%20Bear/vol078/vol078_109_1.jpg
The logbook of the Navarch for 1897 is on line (https://archive.org/details/logbookofnavarch00nava) 8)
Can you make out what is written on the last page (October 14th)?
"One glade left the ship with 7 sacks of flour. 12 glade arrived at 4 PM" ???
Sorry, Randi, I was referring to the Navarch log book the Jil found.
I just got to the non-standard Bear logs that Sylvia mentioned on April 24.
The
ship could be around Seattle because the temperatures haven't been much
above 70 in July. Or it could even be farther north because we used to
occasionally get into the 80s in Vancouver.
If fact, having
finished the month of July I am convinced that the Bear must be up
north, perhaps at Unalaska. The highs are in the high 50s or low 60s in
early August.
This page: https://archive.org/stream/logbookofnavarch00nava#page/46/mode/2up ?
Looking at the S in Ship, I think it might be an S rather than a G, but I'm afraid that that doesn't help much.