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Well, that was a wasted trip, she sailed away about about 126yrs ago.

However, I did find these pictures of the vessel taken in Sydney at that time.

Kearsearge is very popular in Sydney.
Almost everyday we are not fueling of coaling the log reports a large number of visitors from shore.

15 days in port before they had to send the discriptive list of a deserter ashore.
Things are improving.

Maybe not.
Next day one more reported missing (returned by police later in the day.)
15 absent without authority being stragglers from liberty party, five returned later.
2 men declared deserters next day.

(Mind you Sydney is a nice place to desert to)

I don't know. Wasn't everyone in Sydney in 1869 a convicted criminal?

I'm partway through Onondaga 1943. Yours is in the queue.

The voyage for 1869 is finished. Many thanks to Stuart for his great work: bad hand-writing and a poor image quality made it difficult. 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. There were a few mentions of people that are posted here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

• 8648 records for DirT
• 8566 records for Kts
• 8615 records for Baro
• 8622 records for Attd
• 7985 records for Dry
• 8584 records for Wet
• 8554 records for Water
• 8633 records for Weather
• 7492 records for Clouds
• 8485 records for Clear

There were 84184 weather records for Kearsarge in 1869.
Kearsarge travelled a total of 20612 miles.