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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169801732 January
February
March
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Panama
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169801932 April
May
June
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Panama
Florida
Cuba
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Florida
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169802121 October
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Florida
Cuba
Florida

Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Tuscarora 1866-1870




On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, knots, fathoms, courses steered, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
If the ship is not moving (e.g., at anchor), knots, fathoms, and courses steered do not need to be transcribed. In that case, the course is usually the ship's heading.

On the events page please enter: location information, sailing information, and any mentions of ice.
In general there is no need to include comments about the weather unless there is something unusual or extreme.
Comments about problems with or changes of the weather instruments are very rare but should be noted.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be transcribed, but if they are seen on the following days they don't have to be transcribed again. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings.
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 2).

Every page needs to have a date. The date is used to organize the pages.



See Tuscarora: general for some general background and discussion.
See Tuscarora: 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.

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I'll do this year next
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:D :D :D
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Its May and we are at Key West and there is all the usual entries of the ships communicating with each other, but the log keeper actually kept a record of what the messages and replies were.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 19-051.JPG

For example
0840 Made signal (Army Code) to "Dictator" - "We ask permission to loose sails" ans - "Yes"
A few days ago we were asking for permission to air bedding. I was surprised we'd need to ask permission for things as mundane as this, interesting also that the ship that appears to be in command is the "USS Dictator"
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And here is the Wikipedia page. I'm not sure I would want to serve on that ship, especially in high seas!

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8-)
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End of July we are trying to take the USS Manhattan, Ajax and Wyandotte from New Orleans to presumably Key West (and it seems to be a pretty difficult task) and we narrowly dodged a dodged the centre of a hurricane as it hit Mobile.
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8-) 8-) 8-)

I will be really interested to process the weather for that time. We've had a couple of ships go through hurricanes or typhoons.
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