Kearsarge (1868): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[pommystuart]

This makes a change.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 6_0152.JPG

The Master of a British ship Etiga, A. Kenny came on board and asked for assistance to get underway, his crew being drunk. Sent 3 Tutler with an officer to his assistance.

No water police in those days?

[Randi]

Could be: 3^d Cutter

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Next in the Q as I have finished this year.

[Michael]

[Michael]

The voyage for 1868 has been completed, with many thanks to Stuart. Not the easiest log to read, and the log keepers were quite careless in writing down their data. You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it in Google Earth. A few people were mentioned, especially two of the three survivors of the U.S.S. Freedonia, which was destroyed by a tsunami from the August 13 earthquake off Arica, Peru.

[Randi]

Good job
Stuart and Michael !

[pommystuart]

One down, many to go.

[Hanibal94]

When has that NOT been the case for this project?

[Michael]

The Danish archives have stored lots of log books. In fact, the linear shelf space holding the logs stretches 700 m. I'm not sure where the Danish archives stand in the list after the U. S., the U. K. Australia, New Zealand, etc etc etc, but we won't be running out in the near future...

[Randi]

The Danish archivist told me: "The position of the ships are very global and l do not know whether the ships are civilian or government ... The logs are primarily from Danish, Holland, English and American ships. The oldest registration found goes back to 1774 but most seems to be covering 1840-1880."

[pommystuart]

I will leave the Danish, Holland and American ships logs to others as I only 'Read' English and Australian.

[Hanibal94]

As I am 100% Yankee, I'm sure I can handle the American logs , and with my knowledge of German, I might be able to decipher the Dutch ones too.
But Danish would probably be too much

[Michael]

I had a friend who spoke Danish. He had a girl friend who spoke Swedish. Neither one could speak the other's language, but they could both understand the other person. I.e. he could understand Swedish, and she could understand Danish.