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Speaking of sore bums, you might feel this one, too.

U.S.S. Yorktown, 16 October 1902.

8am to meridian:
O. Missel, Seaman, was severely bruised on buttock by falling from boom when getting into whaleboat.

http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _133_1.jpg

espross wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:52 pm Happy Birthday, Stuart!

Sorry for the delayed wishes, but there was a delay at Doldrums Station.

Where did that pic arrive from?

Happy Birthday, Stuart! and a very good year to come!
Sorry I am tardy. We were out and about.

pommystuart wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:48 pm

espross wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:52 pm Happy Birthday, Stuart!

Sorry for the delayed wishes, but there was a delay at Doldrums Station.

Where did that pic arrive from?

I will confess I robbed it from the website of the

Gosport Railway Society News & History including Gosport Station . Society established 1977
http://grsupdate40.blogspot.com/?m=1

Good luck finding it without getting distracted by the many other delights of the Society’s archive!

Maikel wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:36 pm Speaking of sore bums, you might feel this one, too.

U.S.S. Yorktown, 16 October 1902.

8am to meridian:
O. Missel, Seaman, was severely bruised on buttock by falling from boom when getting into whaleboat.

http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _133_1.jpg

On our boat we sometimes call those “boat bites” because we’re always getting little bruises or cuts from this or that. For them to record it in the log, O. Missel must have been pretty badly injured! (And by “boom” I suppose they must have meant what we would call “davit”?)

Hi Espross
Would you believe I was on the other side of Portsmouth Harbour to Gosport on the 1st June this year.
Wish I knew about the railway.

espross wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 10:50 pm

Maikel wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 5:36 pm Speaking of sore bums, you might feel this one, too.

U.S.S. Yorktown, 16 October 1902.

8am to meridian:
O. Missel, Seaman, was severely bruised on buttock by falling from boom when getting into whaleboat.

http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/ ... _133_1.jpg

On our boat we sometimes call those “boat bites” because we’re always getting little bruises or cuts from this or that. For them to record it in the log, O. Missel must have been pretty badly injured! (And by “boom” I suppose they must have meant what we would call “davit”?)

I like to think a boom is a spar rigged to the side of the ship to secure boats to.
Davits, or their equivalent, were called boat's falls in those days.

From The Sailor's Word-Book, by Admiral W. H. Smyth, 1867:

BOOM. A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particular sail; as, jib-boom, flying jib-boom, studding-sail booms, driver or spanker boom, ringtail-boom, main-boom, square-sail boom, &c. A ship is said to come booming forwards when she comes with all the sail she can make.

DAVIT. A piece of timber or iron, with sheaves or blocks at its end, projecting over a vessel's quarter or stern, to hoist up and suspend one end of a boat.
—Fish-davit, is a beam of timber, with a roller or sheave at its end, used as a crane, whereby to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the planks of the ship's side as it ascends, and called fishing the anchor; the lower end of this davit rests on the fore-chains, the upper end being properly secured by a tackle from the mast-head; to which end is hung a large block, and through it a strong rope is rove, called the fish-pendant, to the outer end of which is fitted a large hook, and to its inner end a tackle; the former is called the fish-hook, the latter the fish-tackle.
There is also a davit of a smaller kind, occasionally fixed in the long-boat, and with the assistance of a small windlass, used to weigh the anchor by the buoy-rope, &c.

FALL. ... the loose end of a tackle, or that part to which the power is applied in hoisting, and on which the people pull.

FYI.
Another gem from the ABC downunder.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-12/ ... /102586814

No, this is not a picture of stars and galaxies, it's light snow on a frozen Lake Laberge as in, "Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee."

This is a colour photo, and there is a speck of colour in it, from a seed from a cone of a black spruce. See if you can find it.

Stuart: Beautiful!

Michael: I won't give away the color, but is it roughly the shape of a grain of rice and is it oriented with a negative slope?

Stuart: Wow, will wonders never cease? (Do the crystals spiral the other way in the Southern Hemisphere, yuk yuk?)

Michael: I can't tell the scale at all. If you told me the seed was the hull of the Alice May I'd believe you.

Randi: Man, good eye!

Michael.
Got the rice grain but what are the 9 or 10 orange spots (like a open necklace) and the other spots around in the pic?

Just come across a forum about my last Merchant navy ship. The MV Centaur.
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/threads/ ... hip.18947/
The forum had this great picture of her. She was the vessel which landed me in Australia.



And from a different forum http://ssmaritime.com/centaur.htm
"Centaur had many unique features, whilst having excellent passenger accommodations; she also carried general, refrigerated and liquid cargoes. In addition, Centaur, like the ships she replaced, carried up to 700 head of cattle or some 4,500 sheep in her ’tween decks. Livestock was loaded both in Broome or Derby. Both these ports had operational difficulties as they have extreme tidal ranges, for this reason Centaur was built with a strengthened hull in order to cope having to sit on the bottom at an even keel at low tide. Another unusual item was that vitiated air was discharged through mast tops, as the image above clearly shows." [It does not show well]

Yes, it is. It's probably half the size of a grain of rice.

pommystuart wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 5:37 am Michael.
Got the rice grain but what are the 9 or 10 orange spots (like a open necklace) and the other spots around in the pic?

I don't remember, and I can't think what they might be. It was too early for pollen.

Your M.V. Centaur was a pretty ship!