Kearsarge (1889): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[pommystuart]

Anybody know what Surrp and surrping is in reference to searching and dragging for lost anchor?
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[Michael]

sweep and sweeping...

[Randi]

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26000/2 ... 6000-h.htm
SWEEPING. The act of dragging the bight or loose part of a small rope along the ground, in a harbour or roadstead, in order to recover a sunk anchor or wreck. The two ends of the rope are fastened to two boats, a weight being suspended to the middle, to sink it to the ground, so that, as the boats row ahead, it may drag along the bottom.

[pommystuart]

Thanks.
I did know sweeping but could not get that from the log word.
I can now see it, I think.

[Michael]

Instead of small e's like this, e, he makes them like this, E, but connected to the letters on either side. Sort of like a reversed 3.

[Randi]

Of course, some log keepers do make their r like that just to keep us on our toes

And any log keeper worth their salt will use both forms of e on the same page.

What I found confusing was that he managed to make his w look like a u even though elsewhere his w looked like w.

[Michael]

They are a bunch of tricky devils, aren't they.

[pommystuart]

They are a bunch of tricky devils, aren't they.

And there seems to have been quite a few of them as well.

[pommystuart]

I has taken me a while but I have finally found Lamentin and Arcadins lights. (Hayti)

https://listoflights.org/leuchtfeuer/ma ... l/land/300

https://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse

[Randi]

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Monday September 9th. 1889.
0614 - Man fell overboard from port chains; let go life buoy within 1/2 ships length and at 0617 let go life boat.
Boat returned to ship with man at 0625 he proved to be D.C Chapman (ICA) and was very much exhausted, having failed to reach the buoy.
0945 DC Chapman (ICA) was pronounced to be dead, all efforts at resuscitation having proved unavailing.
At 1500 called “All hands bury the dead and the coffin containing the remains of CD Chapman (ICA) was lowered over the side into the whale boat. Three volleys were fired by the Marine guard. No funeral service was held on board as all arrangements for the service had been made on shore. The funeral party left the ship at 1320 in charge Lieut Cawles.
Exp’d 24 blank Winchester cartridges..
Funeral party returned from shore at 1645

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26 Sept 1889 0800-1200
Auction sale held of D.C. Chapmans effects.

[Michael]

That's very sad, especially because they got to him so quickly.

[pommystuart]

Back in NY 17th Sept.

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Off again.
Can anybody please tell me the name of the sub surface ??? float No27 mentioned at 04-08 line 4. In the log for a while they are logging two temps.
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Same on previous day.
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[Randi]

Looks like Current to me.

[pommystuart]

4 min and I got a reply.
Your on the ball.
Looking at his C in Course they look the same.
I will put Current

They look like they may be in The Florida Current in the Gulf stream and are only measuring temp.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to use a thermometer to determine whether a vessel was in a current, in his case the Gulf Stream, as well
as a means to locate the flow to benefit a vessel’s progress (Franklin 1785). Temperature alone did not provide a magnitude or direction of the flow, so ships were only able to avoid the north-eastern flow of the Gulf Stream on journeys from Europe to North America, and locate and ride
the current on the return trip to Europe.
From https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewconte ... nso_stucap

[Randi]

[Michael]

Kearsarge mentioned leaving the "Gulf" on their voyage from the Virgin Islands to Boston. The Gulf being the Gulf Stream. No temperatures though.