Kearsarge (1874): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[Michael]

I know the feeling.

[Randi]

Reading the Events page is my reward for transcribing the Weather page

[Hanibal94]

In the night from August 20th to 21st, a violent typhoon hit Nagaski - they recorded winds of force 11, and the barometer went to its minimum of 28.21!
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[Michael]

[Hanibal94]

August done. Went from Yokohama to Nagasaki, where a typhoon turned up as mentioned earlier.

Hmmm... IIRC, Godzilla sometimes got woken up from his napping by a typhoon. Better watch out.
But then again, he was first awoken/created by nuclear bombs, which wouldn't come into being for 70 years - guess the Kearsage's safe.

[Randi]

There are more log books after this year, so you are fairly safe

[Hanibal94]

September done. She went to Vladivostok, according to Wiki this was to bring a bunch of scientists over to observe the transit of Venus, but that only took place on December 9th. I wonder why they left so early?

[Michael]

[Hanibal94]

October and November done. Still in Vladivostok, which is quite cold at this time of year - I bet the crew were wishing they were back in Hawaii!

[Michael]

[Hanibal94]

December done. After observing the Venus transit on the 9th, they left Vladdy's woodstock and returned to Nagasaki, then popped over to Shanghai in time for Christmas.

Another year completed!

[Randi]

[Michael]

Well done, Hanibal. I'll get onto it tomorrow!

[Michael]

The voyage for 1874 has been completed, with many thanks and gratitude to Hanibal for his great work. You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.

[Randi]

Great work
Hanibal and Michael !