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I guess none of my schools had a 'lucky bag'. We had a lost property locker in my primary and cupboard in my larger secondary school. Lucky bags started to appear at birthday parties when my younger brother was that age range. They usually contained small bags of sweets or bars of chocolate as prizes in some of the games. The winner drew out an item from the bag usually held by a parent high enough so they couldn't see the contents. Sometimes a tub filled with sawdust containing small prizes was used and called a 'lucky dip'.

Thanks for the info, you can see why my mental picture didn't match the practice on Jamestown.

The "Kearsarge" must be getting ready for war with the native Peruvians.
Entry reads.

"Engaged in painting spears."

The Peruvians would be good SPARing partners.

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Kearsarge 1869, Dec 18th, Bay of Callao, Peru.

0230 Master of the American ship "Kendrick Fish"; came on board and reported his vessel was on fire; sent two boats to his assistance.
Sent a 315lb kedge anchor to her during mid-4 watch, watch engaged in towing her into shore water and attempting to extinguish the fire.
1200 working party returned.
At 1300 the Kendrick Fish sank in 4 fms water having been scuttled to extinguish the fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_December_1869 wrote:The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire and sank at Callao, Peru after 8 December.
The wreck was refloated in February 1870.

https://genealogytrails.com/maine/waldo/obits.html wrote:William James Smith
Died in New Orleans of cholera Dec. 16, on board ship Kendrick Fish, William James Smith, of Thomaston, only son of James Smith, Esq., of this city, aged 35 years 9 months. [Source: Republican Journal (Belfast, ME) Friday, Jan. 24th, 1868, p 3]

Nice looking vessel (till the fire)

Had my first "wearing ship" entry today after all those years.

A jibe (US) or gybe (Britain) is a sailing maneuver whereby a sailing vessel reaching downwind turns its stern through the wind, which then exerts its force from the opposite side of the vessel. For square-rigged ships, this maneuver is called wearing ship.

I remember that from the USS Jamestown - way back in OW3!

Not this then... wearing ship?


Hi Stuart - what was the ship and date and page link please. I'm storing these as possible shipopoly cards for future years. Cheers

Oh no! I've encountered many of these entries, but having a sense of what they were doing and having difficulty with the handwriting, transcribed all of them as "weaving" the ship.

I thought they were weaving back and forth.

You can find some terms in Sail and Wind Powered Sailing Terms, but I fear it is not very well organized
One of these days....

Noticed ball lightning to Sd and Wd during last hour.
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Not something you see every day.

This page's 9 AM entry mentioned passing a French mail steamer and a "Mitzu Bishi":
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One quick Google search, and I found out that Mitsubishi started out as a shipping company in 1870! That's my new thing learned from today.

How's your new place? Do you feel settled in?

From Yantic 1883.
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Steamer "Sofia" from Stockholm of Prof Nordenskiöld ? expedition came in & moored.

Further Info. 151-170 (20 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1798930