Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
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 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
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I will do this one when I finish 1881.

Starting soon.

16th April. Some time around 1700hrs
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The mercurial barometer was accidentally broken by a gun barrel falling against it in the armory.

Aneroid baro used for 1700 hrs onward TFN

I think you could call 20th April the end of voyage.
Coastal work now till October, then back to West Indies.

Mercurial barometer #2037 used 7 May onwards (Page 30)

First time I have seen WOLF (in lower case) in the weather column

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Wet, or heavy dew
Overcast
Lightning
Fog, or foggy weather

Michael.
Can you please run the course plot on these pages me.
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threw to
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When you plot them you will see why.
TIA

Your point? Were they looking for the lost chord?





PS: This is only very rough, I haven't a careful look. That would take more time than I want to spend on this. There were a couple of bad typos I had to fix, Lat 67 instead of 37, and 26 instead of 36. But, you get the idea.

Thanks Michael for the quick plot before I moved on and forgot about it. Sorry about the typos.
(Looks a bit like a flying dinosaur.)

It was a case of follow your leader on fleet maneuvers.
Its a lot of plots for 20 days.
It a pity that we don't have the plots for the other ships in the fleet, Kearserge, Tennessee, Enterprise, Vandalia, and Alliance, it would have made a great animated dance pattern.

July 27th 1882

John Veara (Lds) sent from USFS Tennessee for passage to Chelsea, Mass died at 17:30.

RIP John Veara (Lds)

Finished.