Old Weather Forum

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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 Atalanta — 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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Making a start on January

Welcome back!

Finished January

Pretty uneventful month, based in Ketchikan and patrolling the Alaska panhandle between 55N 57N while running a few errands (delivering mail and motion picture film, etc.)

Furtherst North was 1 trip to Sitka

US Ships mentioned: Citrus, McLane, Cedar and Northern Light

Making a start on February

February completed up till the return to Seattle

Was a bit more eventful than January, a number of days where bad weather affected the operation of the ship

Also had a different sort of inspection at 0730 on the 12th.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2-0016.JPG

And a collision with a smaller vessel on the 17th resulted in the longest log entry I have ever seen.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2-0024.JPG

Encountered the McLane, Sakonnet, Bramble, Citrus this month

Bramble and Citrus were described as buoy tender if that is useful information

They weren't very good at recording their course, but they did record their position relative to various landmarks regularly (up to a couple of times per hour)
I was following the journey using geonames as I went and it should be possible to get a pretty accurate reconstruction.

I'll be moving on to May and June next

Super !!!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Bramble_(WLB-392)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Citrus_(WLB-300)
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/hi ... clane.html
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/h ... onnet.html

Bravo!!!

On the tracker spreadsheet, it says to start at page 33 of the log

This is the 28th of May 1945 and the log starts with the ship already enroute to Ketchikan

Is this ok, or do you want me to start a few days earlier when she leaves Seattle?

We very recently switched to starting transcribing when leaving mainland US and/or Canadian waters.
However, you are welcome to start from Seattle.

Uploaded May and June, moving on to July next

Mostly different officers from Jan/Feb, and the new ones have more difficult handwriting.

Most of this time was spent patrolling up and down the coast between Cape Ommaney and Yakutat

There were a few days where I guess there must have been reports of a submarine off Yakutat so they spend several days at sea. In the end all they found was an upright Spar that looked like a periscope.

Also I think some of the crew might need some target practice:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 6-0022.JPG

1215 Sighted Floating mine in position Longitude 136 18 10 W Latitude 57 32 20 N.
Awaiting instruction from "Comsitsec" as to disposition of same.
1455 Received instructions to dispose of mine with .30 caliber machine gun. Approximate range, 500 yards
1618 Mine sank, no explosion in 64 fathoms of water. position 57 32 N, 136 18 W. Ceased firing, 1129 rounds .30 caliber ammunition expended.
Resumed patrol at various courses + speeds.

Surprisingly there was 1 sighting of ice at this low latitude

Ships encountered in this period: McLane, Northern Light, Cyane, U.S. Army ship Taku, as well as a few fishing ships and Russian Minesweepers.

Good work!

Finished July as well,

Ships mentioned this month: Cyane, McLane

The Cyane sounds like it is doing a similar patrol to the Atalanta, maybe they are taking turns to patrol while the other is in port.

Unfortunately the crew haven't been very good at recording their course while out in the North Pacific, hopefully there is enough there.

I'll claim August-October as well.

Super!

USCGC Cyane (WPC-105):
http://www.seawolfproductions.com/shipw ... picsp1.htm
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?142760

Uploaded the rest of 1945 up to the arrival at Seattle.

Had brief encounters with C.G.C. Bramble and S/S Westdahl C.G.S.
As well as taking turns patrolling with the Cyane

Was a bit puzzled by something that happened on the way back to Seattle

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 0-0009.JPG

1230 Ships emergency signal, identification, marks 1,2,3 and 4 dumped over board in 200 fathoms of water (Auth: Navord OCL A53-45)

Good job!

I was just starting work on Haida, 1923, but I'll work on this voyage before I go any farther.

US Signal, Ships Emergency Identification, Mk 1

and

http://michaelhiske.de/Allierte/USA/OrdnancePamphlets/OP1177/Chapter02.htm wrote:Dumping
SURFACE PYROTECHNICS AND PROJECTORS
Chapter 2 - STOWAGE AND HANDLING

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Dumping

17. As described above, pyrotechnic ammunition must be dumped in at least 100 fathoms of water and not less than ten miles from shore. Before dumping, all material must be re-moved from wood packing boxes, crates, mailing tubes, or sheet metal containers. Ex-treme caution must be taken to prevent accidental ignition of the loose ammunition made ready for dumping. Obsolete or deteriorated pyrotechnic ammunition can be ignited by rough handling. As a further precaution, it is also advisable to shield other ammunition on deck in case of accident. All ammunition items which have a tendency to float must be dumped in weighted sacks or perforated metal containers. The following items must al-ways be dumped, never burned:

(a) Ships Emergency Identification Signals.