Handwriting help, and spelling

[ggordon]

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[ggordon]

Reserved

[ggordon]

Have not yet been able to find Goars Island:

Lucretia October 24th 1885
?side broack? (to confirm the 'o' in Goars)


Lucretia October 17th 1885
Goars Island

[ggordon]

I read through a couple of pages and looked at some maps. I think, based on where I think the ship is at this point (naming Indian Point, Prince of Wales, and the Diomedes), that it is possible he means "Gourd Island" and that maybe he heard it wrong so he wrote it down incorrectly? Gourd Island is a teeny tiny little spot just south and west of Prince of Wales Island. Here's a mapcarta link https://mapcarta.com/24039138 So maybe it's possible?

[ggordon]

Goars Island is an alternate for Saint Matthew Island.

US , Goar's Island , , , Alaska ,
, See Saint Matthew Island
US , Goer's Island , , , Alaska ,
, See Saint Matthew Island
US , Gore's Island , , , Alaska ,
, See Saint Matthew Island
US , Gower's Island , , , Alaska ,
, See Saint Matthew Island
US , Matwi Island , , , Alaska ,
, See Saint Matthew Island
US , Saint Matthew Island , 60.41, -172.72, Alaska ,

[ggordon]

I read through a couple of pages and looked at some maps. I think, based on where I think the ship is at this point (naming Indian Point, Prince of Wales, and the Diomedes), that it is possible he means "Gourd Island" and that maybe he heard it wrong so he wrote it down incorrectly? Gourd Island is a teeny tiny little spot just south and west of Prince of Wales Island. Here's a mapcarta link https://mapcarta.com/24039138 So maybe it's possible?

Thanks for all of your work on this one arboggs! My shame for not mentioning that we had found Goar's Island as Michael (mapurves) notes - ouch -'my bad' as they say these days... I should have rounded up my post above and linked it to the entry on the Alaska Reference topic: http://www.oldweatherforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=174#p174

Mapcarta can make it easy to find places...especially where there are alternative names = good choice. Just to let you know that we take the position from 'Geonames'.

Even with steam up they would not make that kind of a distance in a day (near Indian Point, Mys Chaplina as it now is, to Prince of Wales Island). They lose a certain amount of time getting through the Aleutians which can be horribly tricky dependent on tide and winds.

Cracking start arboggs!

Now I better check that I didn't leave any other stones unturned