AvastMH wrote:Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:34 pm There were about 7/8 steamers up there overwintering at Herschel Island, as far as I can tell after a quick breeze through the logbook. I'm pretty sure that there was a wife on each shipI'm hoping to discover that they went out and played baseball alongside their husbands.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:15 pm
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- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:15 pm
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Helen J wrote:Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:38 pm Heavens they were tough in those days! I hope Mrs Sherman had some other wife around to help her.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:14 pm
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I shouldn't get so emotional, but this had the tissues out for a moment: Notice of a birth in the logbook of the William Baylies overwintering on the Canadian Yukon Coast Wednesday 8th May 1895 at Herschel Island At 6 am Mrs Sherman of the St. Beluga gave birth to a child (girl.) https://imgur.com/...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:13 pm
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Back in the old days.... Hello fellow whalers - you might be interested to see the forum pages, and access the log books, for the ships that we covered in phase 1 of OWW. Here's a link to that old forum's Shipyard: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/old-weather/talk/157 To advance throu...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:12 pm
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North Star Section C 2nd and 3rd March 1882 https://imgur.com/k8qrLRr.png Olfactory nightmare? I just transcribed these short log notes when it suddenly hit me that Honolulu must have stunk to high heavens with all these whalers calling into port busily boiling their last catch (I've seen quite a f...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:11 pm
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North Star (Log Section B) 29th November 1881 Such a short entry, but it's for the days just after passing Cape Horn. The weather is a gale, and there's a 'tremandous heavy sea Running'. You're in the middle of nowhere. One of your chronometers was misbehaving a month or so ago. OK - it's in the Au...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:10 pm
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North Star Section A October 15th 1881 https://archive.org/details/northstarsteamba00nort/page/14 Here's one for engine enthusiasts: 'discover the Syphon Pipe to the Condensing Engine Eaten off where it was encased in a connexsition Flange in the Ships side And the Leak has been Stopped by plugging...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:10 pm
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Randi wrote:Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:23 pm DNA confirms a weird Greenland whale was a narwhal-beluga hybridThe beluga and narwhal branches of the whale family tree split off about 5 million years ago -- about the same time human and chimpanzee ancestors went their separate ways.
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:09 pm
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Lucretia 14th April 1884 The loss of the whaler Rainbow. Just how fast your fortunes can change in the ice of the Arctic. During the morning of the 14th the Lucretia speaks to the Rainbow, and Amethist, and Fleetwing. At 3pm Lucretia is rescuing the crew of the Rainbow... 'spoke Rainbow [...] worke...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:09 pm
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Lucretia May 17th 1883 '27 Sails in Sight' I think that's the greatest number of sails in sight that I've seen in any of the logs, and the Lucretia is ice bound at this time. She's at 61.02N 178.33E which is West of St Matthew Island and above the Navarin Canyon https://i.imgur.com/V3OnPT3.png [hr]...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:08 pm
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Lovely whale news.... Grant Miller, Zooniverse Team member, has been to Antarctica with the PenguinWatch science team led by Tom Hart (PenguinTom). Grant recorded a daily vlog which he is posting day by day until World Penguin Day on April 25th. Early on they see an unusual sight - a group of 6 Fin...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:07 pm
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Boat-header is an important job ;) Boat-crew : The six men who comprise her full complement, or the four men who row a whaleboat, generally the former. Boat-header : The man who steers the boat in going on a whale, and afterwards kills it. Generally a mate, but sometimes an experienced whaleman wit...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:07 pm
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From the log of the Atlantic on 12th August 1881 . New employment from one of the wreck victims of the loss of the Bk Daniel Webster on 2nd July 1881. Interesting to see that a Mate had been due the 30th lay of a trip (the lay is the sum from sale of the oil made by the trip). 'at ten Capt. Green o...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:05 pm
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AvastMH wrote:Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:17 pm 111 barrels ?!?Epic! Oh my goodness. There must be a record of larger single catches somewhere. Sounds like another job to put on my ticket
I just got to that page - and seeing that number again took my breath away. I'm trying to picture how beautiful that whale was.
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:05 pm
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SPHolmes wrote:Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:26 pm On the 25th May they get one that give 111bbls
i think it's Capt Owen in charge by then ; in stream D , 30th June they have to get a lot of extra barrels (1525 I think) on sale or return, so presumably they've done rather well this trip
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:04 pm
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OK - the grim side of whaling: The Mary and Helen is up near the top of the Bering Sea and not far from sea ice. The Captain, BF Wing, is a great collector of other ships' whaling successes. I notice that the page is already underlined during a scan through by the New Bedford Whaling Museum Library...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:04 pm
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Randi wrote:Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:59 pm Great find!
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:03 pm
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Michael wrote:Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:38 pm Very cool!
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:03 pm
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Hi I came across these and thought they were of interest (although the 'Hope' logs are not being transcribed) https://venetianvase.co.uk/2011/02/20/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-arctic/ https://chrisroutledge.co.uk/2012/08/07/arthur-conan-doyles-arctic-whaling-journals/ 'In the Spring of 1880 Arthur C...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:02 pm
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I found a fascinating interactive map in the web site WHALING HISTORY - Connecting All Things Whaling The covering article is: 'Oil & Bone: American Ports in the Golden Age of Yankee Whaling' By Kerry Gathers I changed the map to show 1855 and checked the whalebone landed for New Bedford only. ...