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NARA URL JPG Link General area(s)
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169802687 January
February
March
April
May
June
California
Hawaii
Japan
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169802905 July
August
September
October
November
December
Alaska
California
Hawaii

Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Tuscarora 1871-1874




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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Reserving this year
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 29-042.JPG

They spent all of January travelling from San Diego to Hawaii, stopping 2-3 times a day to take soundings, often reporting water temperatures at various depths

During the 0400-0800 watch on 2nd February they report a temperature at 2086 fms (ocean floor) of 54.3, which is much too high.


Since they are by now in sight of Hawaii, could it be sign of some volcanic activity rather than just a mistake?
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That's an interesting question! I don't know, but that's a reasonable guess.
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On 24th July they are anchored in Glory of Russia Bay, Tanaga Island doing some survey work, this entry caught my eye
0400-0800 Ensign M.D. Hyde. Cheif Engineer L J Allen P.H. Engineer J. H. Harmony + Asst Surgeon J.L. Neilson left the ship to try the height of the mountain as far as the glacier now in plain sight from the ship
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8-) 8-) 8-)
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29th July, sailing along the Aleutian Island doing survey work (and getting very creative with place names) finally arrived at Unalaska in style
2020 Mr Wagner Pilot reported on board: while steaming very slowly into the anchorage the ship answering her helm much more quickly than the Pilot anticipated ran upon a reef standing out from docks just a wash at high water; the keel striking first forward and then first abaft mid ship section. Stopped and devoted the remainder of the watch to lightening ship and making other preparations for getting off. Ran the IX Guns forward and got out shot shell and powder. Sent out kedges from Port bow and quarter and carried out Port bowe anchor with chain to a position about one ships length off Port bow. Tide rising slowly. At end of watch engaged shackling Port chain. Soundings taken around ship at 2340 from the Dingey by J.L. Thatcher Carpenter
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This happens not infrequently. We also have frequent cases of ships running into each other! :roll:
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Tuscarora has run aground when leaving port under pilot control. Cannot remember if it was 1875 or 76.
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 30-141.JPG

Without much fanfare on the 7th of November 0000-0400 we stopped to make a sounding and found the bottom to be ~2000 fms shallower than it should be.

This appears to be the discovery of the Erben Seamount (named after the commanding officer)
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8-) 8-) 8-)
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8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
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Finished
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:D :D :D

Great work! I'll get started on it right away!
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The voyage for 1874 has been completed. Once again, it was another piece of brilliant work by Joke Slayer. The ship took hundreds of soundings which meant many stops and course changes, all dutifully recorded.

You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. A few people were mentioned, and you can read about them here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather ElementRecords
DirT
8,728
Kts
8,669
Baro
8,730
Attd
8,716
Dry
8,723
Wet
8,730
Water
3,766
Weather
8,721
Clouds
8,721
Clear
8,345
Total
81,849

Tuscarora travelled a total of 16,245 miles.

This voyage pushes the total number of miles travelled for this phase of OW to just over 3,500,000 nautical miles!
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Super Work
Joke Slayer and Michael !
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