Ashuelot (1874) — Discussion: Questions, Comments, and Coordination

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Ashuelot (1874) — Discussion: Questions, Comments, and Coordination

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (knots and fathoms), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
However, entries such as Ebb and Flood in the knots and fathoms columns can be omitted. In this case and other cases where no distance is specified, entries in the courses steered column indicate the ship's alignment rather displacement and can also omitted.
It is not necessary to record Leeway or State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta State of the Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
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.



See Ashuelot — General for some general background and discussion.
See Ashuelot — Examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

OW web site: Ashuelot

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Hopefully I'm not being greedy, but I noticed that the Ashuelot explored the Yangtze in 1874, which is pretty interesting, and so I'd like to reserve all of 1874 as well. :owl:
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All yours!
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:) :) :)
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Look out for the USS_Yantic when you are trying to quell a riot by the local natives in Shanghai 3 March 1874.
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Thank you, I will. ;)

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Are you sure you have / your source has the right date?

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Opps typo, mis-copied month. :oops:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yantic_(IX-32)
Look out for the USS_Yantic when you are trying to quell a riot by the local natives in Shanghai 3 March MAY 1874.

Actual log page.
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January to December 1874 done, 1874 completed. :owl:
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Brava!!! I will get to it when I get back from Australia. :) :) :)
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23 July
Yichang, China
At 6:45, came to off the walled city of "Ichang". A vast multitude of "Natives" collected along the Beach, gazing at the ship; it being the first side wheel and largest vessel ever been up the river this far.
From Wikipedia:
Nevertheless, Ashuelot's exploratory voyage from Shanghai to Yichang had blazed a watery trail almost a thousand miles into China—one to be followed until the eve of World War II by the long list of American riverine men-of-war known as the Yangtze Patrol.
Note: 926 nautical miles, 1,065 statute miles.
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We are anchored at the orth end of the Bund in Tientsin ( modern Tainjin). hile hunting around for some clue as to where we were, I discovered this:

Tianjin, with Western Ships in Hai River and Grand, Colonnaded Western Building on the River Bank. China, 1874

I wonder if this picture was taken by someone on the Ashuelot.

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A modern view from where I think they anchored.

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I don't think the crew on the Ashuelot would recognize it if they were there today.
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8-)
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The voyage for 1874 has been processed, with many thanks to SleepyOwl. Nasty handwriting, and a difficult to read logbook. We travelled three Chinese rivers: The Yangtze for 1,000 miles; the Pei Ho for 100 miles; and, the LIau Ho for 10 miles. You need a pilot for these rivers, especially on the Yangtze River, and there is no better pilot than SleepyOwl, who can ferret out those old Chinese names.

You can find a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather ElementRecords
DirT
8757
Kts
8751
Baro
8760
Attd
8760
Dry
7164
Wet
8655
Water
436
Weather
8744
Clouds
7893
Clear
8736
Total
76656

Ashuelot travelled a total of 6769 miles.
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Great job
SleepyOwl and Michael !
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