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Not currently being transcribed



As can be seen below, images for this year cover two days since each day is a single log page.
This requires a special system to transcribe.



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NARA URL JPG Link General area(s)
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169783230 January
February
March
April (1-25)
North Carolina
South Carolina
Philadelphia
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169783387 November (11-30)
December to 25
Philadelphia
Delaware
Bound for Azores


Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Shenandoah 1863-1866




On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta 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 Shenandoah: general for some general background and discussion.
See Shenandoah: 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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We're towing this Monitor, USS Catskill, out of Charleston. I would not want to be in her when the seas are rough!

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Very elegant, but I would like to know why she is being towed before going on board.
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The Aries is behind us, towing another one. Maybe they're not very mobile. I've seen other ships towing them here and there.
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23 March
Philadelphia Navy Yard
1145. Sent party consisting Marine Guard & 70 seamen on shore to dinner given by the ladies of Philadelphia to the crews of this ship and the Ticonderoga.
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25 April
Philadelphia Navy Yard

Noon to 4 PM
2:00 PM.Transferred the crew to Receiving ship Princeton.
3:30 PM. Hauled down the Ensign - ship out of commission.
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20 November
Philadelphia Navy Yard
At 3:30 PM, this ship, the U.S. Steamer Shenandoah, went into commission,the command of the ship turned over by Captain Marchand, Executive Officer of the yard, to Captain John B. Goldsborough.
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The voyage for 1865 has been completed. You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it on Google Earth. No mentions of people were transcribed.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather ElementRecords
DirT
3,251
Kts
3,160
Baro
833
Dry
1,666
Water
219
Weather
3,147
Total
12,276

Shenandoah travelled a total of 3,072 miles.
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Can we get the logs of this Shenandoah?

The CSS Shenandoah docked in Melbourne on January 25, 1865. During its visit 42 Melbourne men secretly joined the Shenandoah's crew before it was sailed back out to sea to continue its attack on the way to the US, providing a rare Australian link to the war.
2nd August 1865
CSS Shenandoah, commanded by James I. Waddell, encounters the British merchant bark, Barracouta, in the Pacific Ocean and receives the first firm report the Civil War ended in April with the defeat of the Confederacy. Shenandoah rounds Cape Horn in mid-September and arrives at Liverpool in early November, becoming the only Confederate Navy ship to circumnavigate the globe. There she hauls down the Confederate ensign and turns over to the Royal Navy.
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https://muse.jhu.edu/book/35862 says "The ship’s log and Captain James Waddell’s notes are well preserved"
Whether you can access them and whether there is any weather data is another matter.
Try contacting these people ;)
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8-) 8-) 8-)
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At a quick skim read of the intro, it look interesting (and funny) book.
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Randi wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:57 pm https://muse.jhu.edu/book/35862 says "The ship’s log and Captain James Waddell’s notes are well preserved"
Whether you can access them and whether there is any weather data is another matter.
Try contacting these people ;)
Digitized logbooks are available here:

https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Det ... tem=581878

https://digital.ncdcr.gov/documents/det ... tem=604839

Looks like they recorded Wind Speed and direction, and later on in the voyage they start recording pressures and some temperatures
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Great find!
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