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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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9 March, 1876
Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernandez Island, Chile

File this under Yuck!

Condemned and threw overboard 145 lbs of bread, turned into slush. 78 lbs of butter.

Here's a view of Cumberland Bay, from around 1900. The cruiser Esmeralda is the harbour.

April 5, 1876
Valparaiso, Chile

At sunrise a salute of 21 guns was fired from the battery on shore and all the Chilian men of war dressed ship. The Brazilian man of war dressed ship also. Owing to existing orders, this ship was not dressed.

A quick search on Google found nothing significant about 5 April in Chile on or before 1876.

April 5, 1876
Valparaiso, Chile

At sunrise a salute of 21 guns was fired from the battery on shore and all the Chilian men of war dressed ship. The Brazilian man of war dressed ship also. Owing to existing orders, this ship was not dressed.

0800: Sent an official explanation of failure to dress ship to the Chilian Corvette "ESmeraldas".

A quick search on Google found nothing significant about 5 April in Chile on or before 1876.

I looked around a little and found that the War of the Pacific began in 1879, but tensions began between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the early 1870s leading up to the war. My guess is that the U.S. wanted to maintain relations with Peru and Bolivia, and didn't want to be too supportive of Chile. I can't find anything specific about April 5, 1876, but assume it was an event that the U.S. wanted to avoid appearing to support.

April 24, 1876
Valparaiso, Chile

Noon to 4 PM.

Sent a squad of ten marines under charge of 1^st Lieut. Wallace on board American ship Edward O'Brien in answer to request
of U.S. Consul for assistance. Left on board 9 prs of hand and 7 prs of leg irons with occupants.

July 4^th
Pisco, Peru.

On the 3^rd, they informed the authorities they would be marking the 4^th and invited them to join.

On the 4^th, they dressed the ship at sunrise.

At noon, fired a national salute of 21 guns in honor of the day, it being the 100^th anniversary of the Independence of the U. S. of America.

There was no note of any other ships or land based installations taking part. However, the Governor of Pisco and various civic authorities visited the ship in the afternoon. I would have thought, it being the 100^th anniversary, that the officers and crew might have done something more to mark the day.

7 July
Pisco, Peru

At 7:05 called all hands bury the dead. Mustered all hands aft on the quarter deck. A few appropriate remarks were made by the Captain after which the body was sent ashore, attended by escort under charge of Master Samuel Seabury. Appropriate services were held ashore at the church of which deceased was a member. Flag was half-masted while boats were going ashore.

8 AM to Meridian

Funeral party returned on board having buried the body of Cornelius Minuchan (Lds) on shore according to the rites of the Catholic Church.

I went back through the logs for the previous six days, but all I could find was this note from July 6^th. There was no explanation as to why he died. Also, the correct spelling of his last name is difficult to make out.

At 0820 Cornelius Minuchan (Lds) died.

12 August
Callao, Peru

At 11:05 the U.S. Flagship Richmond, with the broad pennant of Commodore C. H. B. Caldwell sailed for the South Atlantic Station. Captain E. Simpson being, by order of the Navy Department, left in charge within the limits of the South Pacific Station.

Good work, Michael

I felt the need to let you know that we're in charge now.

14 August
Callao, Peru.

It looks like everything went to H*** once we took over...

At least they got the wind direction in the correct column...

At least they didn't start entering the weather data in the PM row

Shhh! Don't give them ideas.

30 October
Callao, Peru.

File this under Lucky!

Paul Caril (Lds) fell from the main top gallant cross tree, but caught himself and slid down the top gallant backstay, injuring himself slightly. Sent him to sick bay for treatment.

Ouch!

The voyage for 1876 has been completed. 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 here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

• 8741 records for DirT
• 8732 records for Kts
• 8740 records for Baro
• 8738 records for Attd
• 8748 records for Dry
• 8698 records for Wet
• 1029 records for Water
• 8738 records for Weather
• 8295 records for Clouds
• 8631 records for Clear

There were 79090 weather records for Omaha in 1876.
Omaha travelled a total of 7623 miles.