Shenandoah (1872): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[Randi]

That is a lot of people deserting - or trying to!

I never saw osex before, but based on https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-007.JPG I guess he was an extra ordinary seaman.

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We have occasionally had dashes (or colons or spaces) in place of decimal points the past.
You can keep the dash, replace it with a decimal point, or just type the four digits.

[ggordon]

I've seen several entries in the Shenandoah logs with Ex appended to the rank. I've been wondering what it meant.

This page listing the crew complement lists Extras for Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, and Landsmen.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-007.JPG

I did some Google searches, finding several references to men having the Extra ranks, but no explanations of the rank anywhere.

[ggordon]

December 8, approaching Milos, Greece:

8AM to Meridian

Frank Charles (Lds) released from double irons & confined in double irons again by order of Comdg Officer.
offence disobedience of orders.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-061.JPG

[Michael]

[ggordon]

December 10 at Piraeus, Greece:

1 PM

sent ashore the men who smuggled themselves on board at Malta and who are supposed to be deserters from the British Army.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-063.JPG

Doesn't say anything about turning them over to authorities; just "sent ashore."

[Randi]

Hum....

[ggordon]

December 25 at Piraeus, Greece:

1:00 the American Minister visited the ship.
1:50 manned yards and fired a salute of 21 guns with the Grecian Royal Standard at the main in honor of the
King & Queen visiting the ship.
1:55 The King & Queen of Greece and suite came on board and were received by the officers and men.
3:10 The Royal party left the ship, the yards being manned and a salute of (21) twenty one guns was fired with
the Grecian royal Standard at the main.
The French, Russian and Grecian men of war in the harbor dressed ship and participated in the salute in honor
of the event.

No mention of Christmas.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-079.JPG

[ggordon]

For December 26 there are no entries in the PM weather section.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 24-080.JPG

[Hanibal94]

Maybe that's when they were all celebrating Christmas, to make up for the previous day's royal visit

[Randi]

Now that I think about it, I don't remember many mentions of Christmas in the logs.

I just looked at my current ship: Lackawanna (1867). There is no mention of Christmas, but two men were put in double irons for intoxication and one was put in double irons for smuggling liquor on board.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 08-039.JPG

[Michael]

I remember reading about the modern celebration of Christmas some time ago. Apparently until some time in the 1900s, it was mainly a time for people to drink, especially in North America. Thanksgiving celebrations were more important. Because of the drinking and rowdiness associated with it, Christmas began to be promoted as a family time in an effort to make it more like Thanksgiving. I have no idea of how or where I found the articles, but I was curious, too, about the lack of mentions of Christmas in the logs.

[ggordon]

1872 is complete. I will continue with 1873.

[Randi]

[Michael]

I will start processing it soon.

[Michael]

The voyage for 1872 has been done, with many thanks to Gordon for his dedication and careful work. Not the easiest log to read. Not only did the log keeper have difficult writing to read, but he was often quite sloppy in recording various data. A plot of the voyage can be seen here and, for more details, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were many people mentioned, and you can see them here.

Weather Element	Records
DirT	8725
Kts	8729
Baro	8745
Attd	108
Dry	8637
Wet	403
Water	8741
Weather	8730
Clouds	8673
Clear	7935
Total	69426

Shenandoah travelled a total of 6914 miles.

[Randi]

Super job
Gordon and Michael !

[ggordon]

I'm amazed at how fast you're able to process the data. It looks like you've developed great tools for this work.

I doubt that there were really any attached or wet bulb temperatures. Those entries were likely recorded in the wrong columns. I just transcribed what I saw.

[Randi]

February 4 at Ville Franche, France

8PM to Mid

Starlight and brilliant aurora.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 21-168.JPG

A super solar storm rocked Earth in 1872. They’re more common than you think.
February 4 and 5!

[Michael]