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Welcome on board the Cape Horn Pigeon (Bark) of San Francisco. Mastered by Thomas Scullan on voyage from 7 Dec. 1891- 5 Nov. 1892

If you would like to work on a section of the log please

• leave a note in the next available reply section of this board below
• remember to say which section you would like to work on
• a link to the workbook, for your transcriptions, will be provided to you by personal message
• let us know if you would rather work in Excel, LibreCalc, or Google Sheets
• each section of the log must be transcribed by three different transcribers

Where to start once I have my log section and workbook?
Please ensure that you read these information pages before transcribing

1. Transcribing: capturing the log details, and information resources
2. Transcribing: managing your recording workbook

Dates are in the format YYYYMMDD. Links to log book pages are shown in blue

Journey section / Users	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A Captain: arboggs First mate: shiplover Boatsteerer:	18911207	18920324	Hawaii to Guam and onwards to Okinawa	Jan 6th 1892 passes the dateline going from West to East. Feb 26th 1892 gamed the Charles W Morgan
B Captain: arboggs First mate: shiplover Boatsteerer:	18920325	18920629	in the Japan Sea. Visits Vladivostok	Plenty of sailing near Askold Island (Ostrov Askol’d)
C Captain: arboggs First mate: shiplover Boatsteerer:	18920630	18920908	July 13th Heading north from the Japan to the Okhotsk Sea	A lot of time near Cape Siretoko (Mys Aniva, Sakhalin)
D Captain: arboggs First mate: shiplover Boatsteerer:	18920909	18921105	Heads for home early October 1892	9th September 1892, has a miserable adventure when boarded by Russian Naval Officers. Crossed the Meridian Oct 17th 1892

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Note

• The ship works on Civil time (starts and ends at midnight): December 25th 1891: '[...] all sail set at 8 a.m raised [...] at 7 pm went through [...]
• Notes a lot of place names are mentioned which can usually be found in the Geographical Help board. If the name is not present please check back with AvastMH. Thank you

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Thank you for your help

I'll sign up to captain this here ship!

Arrr me handsum - you be the Cap'n then! Great name for a ship eh?
Hope you don't mind getting taken away by the Russian Navy - and don't forget to bill them for your lost gold watch!

WHALING AND SEALING CLAIMS AGAINST RUSSIA, ON ACCOUNT OF ARREST AND SEIZURE OF THE AMERICAN VESSELS “CAPE HORN PIGEON,” “JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS,” “C. H. WHITE,” AND “KATE AND ANNA,”
and yet more...
and if you've got a real thirst for more on this diplomatic super-gaff: https://history.state.gov/historicaldoc ... 02app1/s01

Cheers! I'll send you the spreadsheet just now


( "The Cape Horn Pidgeon" Whaler Ship, artist Alan Jay Gaines, 1979)