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https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-015/581208-tuscarora-015-158.JPG 9th September, arrived at Basseterre At 1, The salute of 21 guns was returned by the camp on shore, gun for gun. Sent Surgeon M Bradley + Asst Surgeon W.N. Faxon ashore with o...

I've done a bit of digging and found this article that goes in quite some detail about the voyages of the Tuscarora and the development of the sounding apparatus. https://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/george-belknap-and-the-thomson-sounding-machine I caught this sentence in the article...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-030/581208-tuscarora-030-141.JPG Without much fanfare on the 7th of November 0000-0400 we stopped to make a sounding and found the bottom to be ~2000 fms shallower than it should be. This appears to be the d...

We spent a month or so in dry dock at Mare Island towards the end of 1874 which included a Commander change after which the soundings continued but they stopped recording temperatures at different depths. Unless they started again at some point in 1875 I think 1873 and 1874 are the only years where ...

Tuscarora, Jan 6th 1869 - Anchored in Chorillos Bay Peru Slight shock of earthquake felt at 9.30 AM https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-014/581208-tuscarora-014-080.JPG Jan 12th, still in Chorillos Bay 0235 felt a slight shock of Earthquake htt...

I'll start on this year

Finished

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-030/581208-tuscarora-030-141.JPG Without much fanfare on the 7th of November 0000-0400 we stopped to make a sounding and found the bottom to be ~2000 fms shallower than it should be. This appears to be the di...

I think I see the issue. On 21st of June, the noon position is 44 59N, 149 37 E which is off Iturup Island. By 8th of August they have sailed up the Kuril Islands and across the Aleutian Islands and have just left port after a stop at Unalaska and are doing some survey work nearby. Noon position on ...

Iturup Island makes more sense (Yeterup is an alternative name in the database and the recorded noon position makes more sense). There are several volcanos on that island and I'm not sure which one it would have been, but possibly Kudryavyy as what little information I could find suggests that ther...

Tuscarora, 12 August 1874

Noon position 53 24N, 155 33 45W

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2300 A very bright aurora was visible in the North

Tuscarora, 8 August 1874 0400-0800 An active Volcano on Port quarter 1200-1600 An active volcano in sight on Port quarter https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-030/581208-tuscarora-030-050.JPG Without calculating position I can't tell which volca...

29th July, sailing along the Aleutian Island doing survey work (and getting very creative with place names) finally arrived at Unalaska in style 2020 Mr Wagner Pilot reported on board: while steaming very slowly into the anchorage the ship answering her helm much more quickly than the Pilot anticipa...

On 24th July they are anchored in Glory of Russia Bay, Tanaga Island doing some survey work, this entry caught my eye 0400-0800 Ensign M.D. Hyde. Cheif Engineer L J Allen P.H. Engineer J. H. Harmony + Asst Surgeon J.L. Neilson left the ship to try the height of the mountain as far as the glacier now...

Tuscarora, 3 July 1874, skirting along the Kuril Islands:

2000-2400 Observed a comet a little to westward of Constellation of the Great Bear

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Tuscarora, 21 June 1874:

0800-1200 An active Volcano on the Yeterop Island was in sight during watch

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https://muse.jhu.edu/book/35862 says "The ship’s log and Captain James Waddell’s notes are well preserved" Whether you can access them and whether there is any weather data is another matter. Try contacting these people ;) Digitized logbooks are available here: https://digital.ncdcr.gov/D...

Tuscarora, 1st May 1874 in Yokohama:

2000-2400 Observed partial eclipse of the Moon

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https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-029/581208-tuscarora-029-042.JPG They spent all of January travelling from San Diego to Hawaii, stopping 2-3 times a day to take soundings, often reporting water temperatures at various depths During the 0400...

Reserving this year