Interesting Log Entries

Post by **Randi** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 4:57 pm

Link to archive of Riveting Log Entries from the old forum

Link to archive of Worse things happen at sea from the old forum

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 5:40 am

Manning 6 June 1900
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 0_0665.JPG

04-08hrs
Received news that Small Pox is prevalent in Nome and no vessel from there be allowed to communicate with shore until permitted by Surgeon of this vessel.

Sounds a bit like the current COVID-19 embargo.

Manning 26 June
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 0_0670.JPG
8pm
Threw over 4 bottle papers.

?????? why ?????

Post by **Randi** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 1:41 pm

http://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/jhaighalaskahistory/coda-disease-and-death-among-alaska-natives/ wrote:1900 Smallpox introduced in Nome from a ship, did not spread widely (Fortuine 1992, 178)

http://www.akhistorycourse.org/americas ... -medicine/

Most likely to track ocean currents..
https://blog.adkinshistory.com/bottle-papers/

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 8:55 pm

Thanks.
They were a very interesting read to start my day.

Post by **Randi** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:03 pm

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:33 pm

Manning 1900 30 Aug.

1000 Stood for an object floating high on water.
1030 Stopped to expend 2 AP shells 6 pdr at dead whale in order to sink it.
1035 Ahead SWxW

(Nice to see them keeping the seas clean.)

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:25 am

Manning 1909 June 17th.

0640 Slowed down to allow men to get breakfast and get ready for docking.

[How considerate]

(0835 Made fast Unalaska.)

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:58 am

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 0_0198.JPG

This is the longest sentence I have seen. (I cannot read the Division or Month it ends on. )
5PM
Received order of District Court for this Territory of Alaska, (June 7, 1910) appointing Captain G.L. Carden, USRCS, Commanding US Revenue Cutter Manning to be US Commissioner on the waters and Islands of the Bering Sea within the Third Judieial Division of the Territory of Alaska for the season commencing on the 8th day of June, 1910, and ending unless sooner removed by an order of this court on the 3 ?? 1910.

TIA

Post by **Randi** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:54 pm

Judicial
31st
?

Hanibal94 · Post by **Hanibal94** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:00 pm

Looks like "on Dec 31st 1910" to me, so until the end of the year.

Post by **Randi** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:01 pm

Definitely. I should have looked closer!

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:32 pm

Thanks.
They stand out when someone points it out.

pommystuart · Post by **pommystuart** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 9:36 pm

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2_0281.JPG

Comment in log at 1530.
Accidently blew five inches off right hand barrel of Parker shotgun.

No comment about what/who the gun was pointed at at the time.

Post by **Randi** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:09 pm

Wonder how they managed to do that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Bros.

Hanibal94 · Post by **Hanibal94** » Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:18 pm

Barrel was blocked, and thus exploded when they tried to fire it?

studentforever · Post by **studentforever** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:53 am

The logkeeper on Jamestown has coined a new word. His midnight entry finishes 'light airs from the north and nausable odors from the shore'

He's just anchored in Naples and hoisted the quarantine flag.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _170_0.jpg

He repeats the use next day. My transcriber rendered it 'moderate odors from the shore'
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _170_1.jpg

I did google the word with no usable hits.

Post by **Randi** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:36 pm

I found several occurrences of "nauseable" being used, but never from a dictionary.

Entering the hotel there was a nauseable smell . The smell was present the three days of our stay. We had rooms in the Inn , large living but small and old ...

Rose - Raspberry Melvita perfume - a fragrance for women
Airy and feminine, yet sweet, without beeing nauseable, but fresh.

studentforever · Post by **studentforever** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:36 pm

I wonder why one of the dictionaries which looks for new & novel words hasn't picked it up? It sounds as if the examples you have found come from the same side of the pond as Jamestown but obviously the history goes back a long way. Talking about language divergence, spelling in Jamestown's log is interesting. We have liquor but centre and harbour for example. I've used the log spellings even when they are GB rather than US much to the exasperation of WORD which marks them all.

Post by **Randi** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:57 pm

In Pittsburgh one of the main streets is Centre Avenue

studentforever · Post by **studentforever** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:46 pm

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.

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