Bear (1924) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

Post Reply
User avatar
Randi
Posts: 6884
Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:53 pm
Location: Pennsylvania

Bear (1924) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

Post by Randi »

NARA URLJPG LinkLocationSector
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23699987 January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Non Arctic
Non Arctic
Non Arctic
Non Arctic
To Arctic
Arctic
Arctic
From Arctic
Non Arctic
Non Arctic
Non Arctic
Non Arctic




P
P
P
P



On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances, courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record Sea Conditions or Swells from.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea columns.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae and volcanic activity should also be reported.
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.
(If one transcriber does events and weather and they are in the same image, the date is only entered once.)



OW web site: Bear

Direct links
User avatar
Randi
Posts: 6884
Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:53 pm
Location: Pennsylvania

Re: Bear (1924) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

Post by Randi »

jmargel wrote:Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:47 pm Note: Scanned log is missing pages from May 4th through May 10th. On May 3rd the ship is just leaving Oakland, California. Then we jump to May 11th, where the ship starts the day (midnight) saying they are at Haro Straits, BC and then at 9am they arrive in Seattle, Washington. They stay in Seattle for a few days before heading out again. No information for the days inbetween (May 4-10).

ggordon wrote:Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:28 pm The same thing happened for me with Bear 1919. The missing dates eventually showed up on later scanned pages.

jmargel wrote:Sun Sep 29, 2019 3:11 am You are correct - missing pages were located after the May 17th page (scan 269-282). Half of May now complete and uploaded.

jmargel wrote:Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:08 pm :D June complete and uploaded.

Ship has been drifting in "heavy field ice" all month, only occassionally making deliberate headway.

jmargel wrote:Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:38 am Not sure how long it's supposed to take to go from Unalaska, Alaska to Nome, Alaska but it took these guys six weeks (May 31 - July 16th!) But they finally made it. I'll bet those passengers they picked up in Unalaska were relieved to get off the ship. Lots and lots of ice to report during this period.

Michael wrote:Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:20 pm It is an eye-opener, isn't it. They had a similarly long trip getting from Nome to Barrow in 1931. Sometimes they send dog teams out from Nome to where the ship is stuck in the ice, so they can get the mail and some passengers. Sometimes, when they're trying to get to Barrow, they just have to give up and go back. They leave goods and people in Wainwright, if they can get that far north, and let dog teams take them the rest of the way.

This was them trying to find a lead in the ice to Nome. June 9 to 27, 1918. ;D

Image

jmargel wrote:Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:42 am Wow. That's really cool - plotting the course like that. Can't imagine what that would be like - drifting with the ice for weeks on end.

I've finished with July, and will have to stop there for now. It's been an interesting journey. Thanks for letting me help out!

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:49 pm On November 1st, they assisted with firefighting efforts when a warehouse on the docks caught fire:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4-0621.JPG (last paragraph)

The building was completely destroyed, but they did stop the fire from spreading any further.

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:39 pm And it's all done! I have finished 1924, and uploaded everything - except for November 2nd to 8th.
These pages are missing entirely:

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4-0620.JPG -> Nov 1st
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4-0622.JPG -> Nov 9th

They're not at the end of the book either - it just ends at 728 (December 31st Events page).

Anyways, I will now go to the Northland, as there is sadly nothing left for me to do on the Bear.
1921 and 1926 are training grounds for newbies, and 1920 is still missing.
User avatar
Randi
Posts: 6884
Joined: Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:53 pm
Location: Pennsylvania

Re: Bear (1924) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

Post by Randi »

Michael wrote:Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:05 pm The voyage for 1924 has been plotted. You can see it here.

Thanks to newbie JMargel and the indefatigable Hanibal!

This voyage has pushed OW Arctic across the 400,000 hours of data line. Next stop, half-a-million! ;D
Post Reply

Return to “Bear”