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Hello! Would anyone have any resources about the ship prefixes used in 1900? I'm running into some trouble identifying ships as ship prefixes have changed quite a bit in the past 120 years (!) Thanks for any pointers!

USFCS Albatross, 27 Feb 1900, making passage from Guam to Yokohama, midnight to 4am watch
"Several meteors to Northward."
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _123_1.jpg

On the OWpedia under 'Coaling' there's a link to the old forum that no longer works.

Hello! I'm currently in the process of editing the logs of the Albatross and had a question regarding a location in this log (commences and until 4am watch) - specifically, the lighthouse named 'Nogatsumi saki light'. The reference page and Geonames list it as an alternate name for 'Nagatsuromisaki'...

Happy birthday Randi! Hope you had a fantastic day!

Hello all, griddlesticks here, I've been vaguely involved with Old Weather since 2015, having found it through Zooniverse, and stuck around for a while partly due to how well organized the project was. I've joined the editing team this time as that was what I enjoyed most about the project and have ...