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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Yantic: general for some general background and discussion.
See Yantic: examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

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I'd like to reserve January and February

January and February completed.

The remainder of the year is available

I may as well complete this year.

OK!

March 12th 1874, Siagon.

0210, Rd. Lloyd (SB) prisoner in single irons (feet) while at the head with the Corporal of the Guard jumper overboard and swam or floated down the river with the tide. A boat was lowered and sent after him but returned at 0300 without having found him.

Swimming with single irons on his feet!!!

May 3rd and 4th 1874 Yantic sent 2 armed landing parties to assist the French in quelling the Siming gongsuo riots in Shanghai.
In the log book we have
Received a visit from the French Consul General and from the Commander of the French Gunboat Couleurro [?spelling] who came to offer thanks for the support of the armed landing parties sent from this ship on the 3rd and 4th Inst.

In this Thesis about the Siming gongsuo riots no mention is made of the Yantics help.
See this link page 29 for further info.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158321614.pdf

Interesting stuff! Good find, Stuart.

Love the bits of history, and everyday life, that come up in the events pages!

21 men, 1 boy, 1 coolie and 1 European came on board. (In Shanghai)

Looking forward to 6 months in port at Amoy. (not)

I feel your pain. I had 224 days in Yokohama.

Aug 6 1874, Amor, China.
At the request of the American Consul sent an officer and a squad of marines on shore to arrest General Le Gindre, an American citizen.

From Wikipedia.
Le Gendre participated in the December 1872 diplomatic mission by Soejima to Beijing. After meeting with only partial success in negotiations, Le Gendre helped organize Japan's Taiwan Expedition of 1874, which he intended to personally accompany. However, Le Gendre was unexpectedly imprisoned for a brief time at Shanghai on the orders of the United States Consul-General for deserting the service, and thus never actually made it to Taiwan.

Aug 15th 1874.

09:30. Called all hands to muster. Commander O.F. Stanton read the order relieving him from the command of this vessel. Commander Robert F. R. Lewis read the order by which he assumed command of this vessel.
Dis-rated all the Petty-Officers who were again rated by the Commanding Officer.
Weather warm ....

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No mention of the Yantic in the following article. (Stanton was in command from 27 June 1873 - 15 Aug 1874)

From http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/247.htm
Oscar Fitzalan Stanton (July 18, 1834 - July 05, 1924) entered the Navy in 1849. A short time later he was aboard Susquehanna, taking part in Commodore Perry's Japan Expedition. During 1858-1859 he was on the Frigate Constellation. Serving with the Pacific Squadron at the outbreak of the Civil War, Stanton was promoted to Lt. Commander. In command of Pinola he participated in the battle of Mobile Bay with Admiral Farragut. Stanton was promoted to Commander in 1867. He became a Captain in 1879 and for two years commanded the Frigate Constitution. In 1884 he commanded Tennessee, and a year later was placed in charge of the Naval Station at New London, where he remained for three years and acquired his love for the town that was to become his home. By 1893 he was a Rear Admiral in command of the South Atlantic Squadron, and in 1894 his flagship, USS Kearsarge, was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. He retired later that year, but was again placed in command of the New London Naval Station during the Spanish American War. This was his last active service.