Old Weather Forum

They were quite close in depth.

Indeed!

1-Aug-1876
0915 Transferred Major Welling (Qr Gr ?) to US Naval Asylum.

No full stop after Asylum and the next sentence is Engaged scraping ships side. I wonder if that's what sent him there?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 34-041.JPG

According to Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy - 1845

At the naval asylum in Philadelphia, more than a hundred veteran sailors are enjoying the ample provision wisely reserved for the comfort of their declining years.

Perhaps he had been injured earlier?

Probably Quarter Gunner

I finally get a scribe who is not afraid of using ink, just as the vessel is being stripped.

I guess he figured that he might as well use it up

All dun.
Entering my time machine now and going back to Tuscarora 1875.
Woosh

The voyage for 1876 has been completed with many thanks to Stuart for his great work! 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. One person was mentioned here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	6,153
Kts	6,123
Baro	5,501
Attd	5,513
Dry	5,513
Wet	5,502
Water	2,561
Weather	6,115
Clouds	6,120
Clear	6,115
Total	55,216

Tuscarora travelled a total of 11,535 miles.