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8 January 1889
Shanghai, China
At 9:08 PM, heard a pistol-shot and found it to be a shot fired by Chief Engineer Edwin Wells, shooting himself in the head, on the lower platform of the starboard gangway, and found him holding the revolver in his right hand. Had the body brought on the port side of the quarter deck and Surgeon G. R. Brush pronounced him dead. Sent an officer to report the circumstances to the Comd'r-in-Chief.
RIP Chief Engineer Edwin Wells.
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9 January, 1889
Shanghai, China
At 12:55 PM, a board of inquest composed of Surgeon Geo. R. Brush, Lieut. J. B. Murdock and P. Asst Engr A. V. Zane convened, by order of Comdr-in-Chief, to inquire into the circumstances of the death of Chief Engineer Edwin Wells, and held a post-mortem on body of deceased.
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RIP Edwin Wells
It can't be easy to be so far from home for so long.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/490 ... dwin-wells
Birth: 15 Sep 1837
Death: 8 Jan 1889 (aged 51) (Findagrave page gives 3 Jan, but the Record of Burial Place of Veteran on the page gives 8 Jan)
Burial: Edgewood Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
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10 January 1889
Shanghai, China

8AM to Meridian
Received on board in Medical Dept one casket for the burial of Chief Engr Edwin Wells U.S.N.
At 1:45 PM, the funeral escort and pall bearers came alongside form flagship. At 1:50, Manned boats and called "all hands bury the dead" and half-masted colors. At 2 P.M. the remains of Chief Engr Edwin Wells were piped over the side and the funeral escort and pall bearers left the ship. Board took inventory of the effects of the late Edwin Wells Chief Engr U. S. Navy. At 3:45 funeral party returned on board the ship and masted colors and hoisted all boats.
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I am very glad he got full honors.
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Me, too!
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19 February
Shanghai

After reading about the first electric lights on ships, I saw this...

From 4 to 8 PM
At 6:45 the valve return of dynamo engine broke; got up and lighted all oil lights.
From 8 PM to Midnight
At 8:30 started dynamo, having put spare valve stem on Engine.
I bet they were happy to go back to electric lights.
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:lol:
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February 26
Shanghai, China
Punishments
J. A. Lundine (OS), P. Petterson (OS), M. Brown (OS), J. Flynn (P.M.)
Clothes adrift.
One days extra duty
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I just love that description, having had a couple of children whose clothes were always washing up somewhere: on a floor, couch, chair, table, counter, under a bed, ...
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:D :D :D
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Yokohama, Japan
April 8
E Osterberg (O. Sea.) was brought on board by a policeman and a reward of 25 cents paid for his arrest.
They've been paying $10.00 for ages, so I wonder why only 25 cents this time. Maybe because there was no notice posted offering a $10.00 reward will be awarded for his arrest, and this policeman just brought Osterberg aboard without being asked.
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24 April
Yokohama, Japan.
At 12.55 The Comdr in Chief and his personal staff left the ship to attend a garden reception given by the Mikado of Japan at Tokio.
That must have be some gathering! If I had a Tardis, I would have popped in. :) :) :)
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April 27
Yokohama
The Hawaiian Minister and the Charge d'Affairs of Holland paid official visits on board this vessel and upon their departure fired salute of 15 guns for the former, Hawaiian flag at the fore and a salute of 11 guns for the latter, Dutch flag at the fore.
I found it very interesting that the Hawaiian Minister was in Yokohama.
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Trading Sovereignty and Labour: The Consular Network of Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i
Between 1876 and 1890, the Legislative Assembly of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i apportioned over $1 million to subsidise the transportation of contract labourers and their families from five locations: the so-called South Sea Islands (Micronesia and the New Hebrides), Portugal (mainly the Atlantic islands of Madeira and the Azores), Norway, Germany and Japan. These contracts, envisioned with permanent settlement in mind, did not include return passage, with the exception of the Pacific islanders. Japanese migration, begun in earnest in 1886, was ultimately the most demographically significant, with over 60,000 Japanese migrating to the islands on contracts of government indenture before the abolition of the Hawaiian consular system in 1900.
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8-) 8-) 8-)
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May 4
Yokohama
At 12.50 the Comdr in Chief, his staff, and a delegation of officers and men from this ship went ashore to attend the memorial services to be held at Omori in honor of the officers and men who lost their lives in the wreck of the U.S.S. Oneida.
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The wreck of the Oneida was sold at public auction at Yokohama 9 October 1872, to Mr. Tatchobonaiya. Inside the wreckage were found many of the bones of the dead sailors, which were interred, at the expense of the salvagers, on the grounds of Ikegami Temple in Tokyo. In Jinrikisha Days in Japan (1891), Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore tells the story, writing:

...[the American] government made no effort to raise the wreck or search it, and finally sold it to a Japanese wrecking company for fifteen hundred dollars. The wreckers found many bones of the lost men among the ship's timbers, and when the work was entirely completed, with their voluntary contributions they erected a tablet in the Ikegami grounds to the memory of the dead, and celebrated there the impressive Buddhist segaki (feast of hungry souls), in May 1889. The great temple was in ceremonial array; seventy-five priests in their richest robes assisted at the mass, and among the congregation were the American admiral and his officers, one hundred men from the fleet, and one survivor of the solitary boat's crew that escaped from the Oneida.

The Scriptures were read, a service was chanted, the Sutra repeated, incense burned, the symbolic lotus-leaves cast before the altar, and after an address in English by Mr. Amenomori explaining the segaki, the procession of priests walked to the tablet in the grounds to chant prayers and burn incense again.
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May 8
Yokohama
At 8.15 the American ship Frank Pendleton, Capt W.C. Nichols, 157 days from New York, with a cargo of Case oil, came in and anchored.
It always amazes me to think that not long ago it was not unusual to be on a ship for 157 days to get from one place to another. I imagine most people would take a train to Vancouver or San Francisco and then go by ship.
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24 May
Yokohama

Noon to Meridian
Threw overboard in Pay Dept., condemned by survey, 4380 pounds of bread.
:shock: :shock: :shock:
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May 27
Yokohama

4 AM to 8 AM
At 4.35 sighted O&O Steamer Gallic with American Mail. At 4.50 fired two guns, American flag at the fore. At 5 sent boarding officer to Gallic, Captain W.G. Paerne, 14 days, 19 hrs, 53 min from San Francisco being quickest time recorded for passage.
Quite a difference from the 157 days sailing New York to Yokohama.
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