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Title: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 19, 2018, 08:27:46 pm
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 28, 2018, 05:45:38 pm
Ice Hunting Guide (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4690.0)
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 28, 2018, 05:45:44 pm
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on January 28, 2018, 05:45:51 pm
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on May 16, 2018, 02:09:43 pm
We have been drifting in ice now for a couple of week in Melville Bay W. Greenland.
I wonder if it is part of some observations or we are just stuck?
As we were intending to go to Fredericksdal I guess we are stuck, in company with USS Edisto.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on May 16, 2018, 03:51:38 pm
It happens! Stay warm...  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on May 18, 2018, 12:02:52 am
Seems we were part of an Ice movement study with other vessels.

Finally after over a month drifting we are on the move, but it puzzles me where, it's somewhere called 'ice movement element B' (later called Baker)
See

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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on May 18, 2018, 07:22:25 am
Ice Movement Element Baker - A place or maybe a ship?

It also mentions Ice Movement Element Able :-\
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on May 18, 2018, 08:42:45 am
Quote from: Randi on May 18, 2018, 07:22:25 am
Ice Movement Element Baker - A place or maybe a ship?

It also mentions Ice Movement Element Able :-\

It might be a specific location. I've seen Storis reference locations with Alpha, Baker etc. Or, maybe it's some sot of transmitter placed on the ice so that the movement can be tracked by radio.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on May 18, 2018, 08:52:03 am
Kevin replied that it is probably part of Operation Blue Jay.
http://operationbluejay.blogspot.com/
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/convoy-of-ships-frozen-in-the-ice-during-the-1951-trip-news-photo/92937978#convoy-of-ships-frozen-in-the-ice-during-the-1951-trip-during-blue-picture-id92937978
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on May 18, 2018, 08:58:05 am
Found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Jay

Also
http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/212484-an-operation-blue-jay-and-a-sondrestrom-air-base-patch/
http://www.thuleforum.com/blue-j/
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on May 18, 2018, 10:51:08 am
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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on May 18, 2018, 02:13:55 pm
Nice finds folks.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on June 04, 2018, 10:36:16 pm
1951 FINISHED.

Going on holiday (West then North) for 2 months in 1 weeks time so will be slow with entries.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on June 05, 2018, 04:40:42 am
Enjoy your holiday!
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on June 05, 2018, 07:04:00 am
Thanks for 1951. I hope I can get it analyzed before you get back. I hope you have a wonderful trip.  :) :) :)
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on June 05, 2018, 05:05:30 pm
Thanks, I will try.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on June 05, 2018, 05:11:42 pm
Quote from: Pommy Stuart on June 05, 2018, 05:05:30 pm
Thanks, I will try.

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Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on June 06, 2018, 02:03:26 am
Must try and remember that one Michael.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Randi on June 06, 2018, 06:03:33 am
Don't try Michael's patience.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on June 06, 2018, 09:30:30 am
There's no worry about that. My patience has been sorely tested by Toby the Cat, and there are few humans in the world who could match him for being annoying.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on January 24, 2019, 04:41:09 pm
The voyage for 1951 is here (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rOUdMoOmIcWmGqhDWXjJqPJ2lftBt1lK). They were in Thule and Eureka. They also stopped briefly off an abandoned RCMP post on the Bache Peninsula.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Pommy Stuart on January 24, 2019, 10:53:27 pm
Had not realised they got that far north in the islands.
Title: Re: Eastwind (1951) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Post by: Michael on January 25, 2019, 06:46:36 am
Quote from: Pommy Stuart on January 24, 2019, 10:53:27 pm
Had not realised they got that far north in the islands.

I thought they would go up to Alert, 82o30N  62o22W,  but not this year. They did in  '48 and '50. I'll be working on '52 aft I go to the gym...