Interesting Log Entries

[AvastMH]

Checked in my 2 vol Shorter Oxford Dictionary - nausable not there. Not paying £90 per year for access to the full OED online which includes the historical data and a thesaurus. The local reference libraries which might have a full paper OED are shut for Covid. Ah well, people who like words will decode it. It does have the advantage of fewer letters than nauseating and sickly has different connotations.

Just spotted this one...a perk of work is access to the monster OED
'No dictionary entries found for ‘nausable’.' There you go then - not in the dictionary but I bet we all understand it- nose pegs on!

[studentforever]

Thanks Joan. I'd almost forgotten about nausable. Since Jamestown was USN not RN maybe I ought to check Webster but I don't know how comprehensive it is and I no longer have ready access to it anyway. Our local ref library is being renovated and I'm not sure what they've done with the books. The lending library is in some portacabins in the leisure centre car park. The museum exhibits and art gallery contents are in storage and between renovations and re-purposing of existing buildings during a pandemic no member of the public is too sure of where anything is other than the Aggie Christie and Mills and Boone type books.

Had a spare few minutes and tried Websters American Dictionary on-line. Not there either, they suggested nauseous. Obviously the word did not catch on and I suppose it wasn't technically used in a published item either. I suspect that the logs were sealed to the general public for a certain number of years, I think the RN logs are sealed for 70 or 75 years and logs containing medical or details of disciplinary matters, like the census, sealed for 100 years.

[ggordon]

The Shenandoah was in Hong Kong harbor on June 26, 1868 when,

At 12.10, 182 baskets (9600 lbs.) of bread came alongside. Discharged it.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 12-022.JPG

The old style script can be difficult to read sometimes, but I'm sure this is what the log says.

I'm trying to imagine a flotilla of bread baskets sailing across the harbor.

[AvastMH]

Love the mind's-eye-picture of each little loaf with its cocktail stick sail heading off downriver for a new life on the open seas ...

[Randi]

[Michael]

[Morgan]

OK, what does "discharged it" mean? They ate it or turned it away?

[pommystuart]

I think they may have "discharged it" after eating it.

[Michael]

Enough of browsing the forum, Stuart. Get thee transcribing!!!

[Randi]

In this context it probably means unloading.
Lower down on the page it says:
From 4 to 9 PM
... Finished discharging last coal lighter.

[pommystuart]

Enough of browsing the forum, Stuart. Get thee transcribing!!!

Yes Dear Michael .

[Randi]

If the bread proved to be bad, perhaps they discharged it during artillery practice

[pommystuart]

They probably had Hard tack biscuits so Hard bread buns would be possible.
They may also have had Grape shot to keep up the food theme.

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

[studentforever]

Jamestown has solved her desertion problem by going to sea but has resumed punishments for relatively minor misdemeanors. This one looks like a new one on me.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 67_216.jpg

What exactly has C Ross (3rd class Boy) done to incur the wrath of the Commanding Officer or his surrogate?

[Randi]

Lucky bag The lucky bag is also defined as a where loose items from a ship are stored until being returned to the owner. According to the 1940 edition of the Blue Jackets' Manual (a handbook for U.S. Navy enlisted personnel), "The lucky bag is a place where the police petty officers stow for safe-keeping effects that are found adrift about the ship. All clothes, etc., found about the decks are placed in the lucky bag. When clothes are piped down, the police petty officer attends and takes care of all clothes not called for and places these in the lucky bag. All effects in this bag belong to the person who lost them. At frequent intervals the lucky bag is opened and the effects distributed to the owners. Where persons have been guilty of carelessness in leaving their effects adrift, they are placed on the report." According to the log of the USS Yosemite, on June 24, 1898 several sailors were given 72 hours extra duty for having an article in the lucky bag. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Bag
[AND]
The Lucky Bag is a practice still followed on some school ships. We had a 'gear adrift' locker for such things - one could retrieve items at any time, but on field day (cleaning day) anything left there would be auctioned for a song (or other performance) with preference for the actual owner. Socks not so much but foulies commanded a high price, especially on northbound voyages. [krwood]

Something of his, his sea bag?, was not where it should have been.

[Michael]

It looks like he lost one of his personal items, a Bag, which was found and put in the Lucky bag.

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[AvastMH]

If C Ross took away the Lucky bag, instead of just his bag, his mates would owe him their rum ration for a looong time

[Michael]