Interesting Log Entries

[Michael]

I've seen something like that as well, but I can't remember the details.

[Randi]

I think I have seen some too, and Gordon recently reported this.

[studentforever]

The ways of USS Jametown grow ever more mysterious. She set sail commanded by Commander Allan D Brown but mid voyage his name was deleted and that of Lieutenant WW Rhodes inserted. No other mention of the change was made in the log.

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[Randi]

Maybe Commander Brown was just sick for a few days?

[studentforever]

I think that must have been the answer as he resumes command a day or two later. Mind you a bit of digging around revealed that after he retired from the Navy he was ordained as an Episcopal priest. Interesting change of career.

[pommystuart]

Yantik

The mercurial barometer was accidentally broken by a gun barrel falling against it in the armory.

Never knew they stored it there.

[Michael]

You want it well protected at all costs!

[pommystuart]

Atalanta 1935 10th Sept.

0105 Underway on various courses and speeds standing out of Dutch Harbor.
Cole, Leslie E. (102-169)., left behind having received permission to go berry picking and to remain in hearing distance of recall, but could not be located.

[Michael]

It's what you do in the north in the fall. Watch out for bears!

[pommystuart]

Kearserge 3rd Aug 1889 at Port au Prince, Hayti.

At 0115 a steamer passed in showing no lights; after hailing the “Forward” she passed under our stern and asking “What ship is that” we asked “Who are you” she replied the “Jasmel” belonging to the Hyppolites Navy; we then asked “what she wanted” and she answered that she was looking for the “Dessalines” and was going to bombard the town. We gave our name and told her to stand on. She left the harbor after a little maneuvering at 0230.

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[Randi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florvil_Hyppolite
Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite (French pronunciation: [lwi mɔ̃dɛstɛ̃ flɔʁvil ipɔlit]; 26 May 1828 – 24 March 1896) was a Haitian general and politician who served as the President of Haiti from 17 October 1889 to 24 March 1896.

[pommystuart]

Kearserge 4th Aug 1889 at Port au Prince, Hayti.
0130
Heard the report of several heavy guns, the firing was distant and back of the hill to the south'd of the city.
1600
Frequent firing during the watch from cannon mounted on the heights about 6 miles to the S'd of the city.

6th Aug.
1940 Two guns were fired on shore from direction of Fort Joseph.
2000-2400 Occasional firing of heavy guns in water battery, Fort Alexander and forts to left of city.

7th Aug
0240 Forts commenced firing; about a half dozen shots were fired principally from Fort Alexander.
0800-2400 Occasional firing of heavy guns back of city.

8, through to 11 Aug
Heard heavy gun fire various times to the north and south of the city and towards La Coupe through the day and night.

18 Aug
08-1200 Several guns fired from forts in city.
20-2400 Frequent firing from forts around Port au Prince during first hour of watch.

[pommystuart]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florvil_Hyppolite
Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite (French pronunciation: [lwi mɔ̃dɛstɛ̃ flɔʁvil ipɔlit]; 26 May 1828 – 24 March 1896) was a Haitian general and politician who served as the President of Haiti from 17 October 1889 to 24 March 1896.

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Hyppolite revolt

Haitian general Florvil Hyppolite led a revolt against President of Haiti François Denys Légitime in August 1889.[2][3] According to The New York Times, General Hyppolite reportedly promised the United States that he would allow the construction of a base for the United States Navy in exchange for assistance with his revolt, though the report says that Môle Saint-Nicolas was never specified as a location.[4] President Légitime would eventually resign and Hyppolite assumed the presidency of Haiti.[2][3] Shortly after Hyppolite assumed the presidency of Haiti in October 1889, President of the United States Benjamin Harrison, acting under the advice of Secretary of State James G. Blaine, commissioned Rear-Admiral Bancroft Gherardi to negotiate for the acquisition of Môle Saint-Nicolas with the aim of establishing a naval coaling station there.[5][6]

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

You have got to love the wording, condemned.

Lieut W.S. Hughes USN reported on board in obedience to orders of Admiral Gherardi for passage to the United States having been condemned by medical survey and directed to report to the Naval Hospital N.Y. for treatment.

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[Randi]

Yes, using that for a person sounds strange to us, but it seems to have been standard terminology.

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[pommystuart]

Kearsarge 1889
Dec 2
Received on board 150 Silk Necker chiefs.

Are they some kind of Indian?

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Kearsarge Feb 7th 1889
Stopped off settlement on the island (Navassa island)
Sent whale boat with an officer ashore to communicate.
1730 with a request from authorities on shore for the loan of a dozen pair of leg and hand irons. Sent them.

[Michael]