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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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24 January
Dwarf Anchorage, China

1400

At 2:00 called all hands and held funeral service over the body of W. G. Whittier, late apprentice, then sent body ashore with escort to be buried. Half masted colors, during service and while party was ashore. Bearing of grave top of hill west Village NWxW, Edge of Bay, NW, Chinese Grave NExE. Funeral party returned at 4.

RIP Mr. Whittier

Mr. Whittier died at 6:55, but there was nothing on this page to indicate the cause of his death. This is the first time that I've noticed the bearings of the grave have been recorded in the log.

That must have been hard on his family.

Yokohama, Japan
8 February

I took this as a sign of nonchalance.

About 4:10 a fire was reported on the Beach, which proved to be the Windsor Hotel & adjoining buildings. Scrubbed bags.

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Great find!!! You are the Queen of google searches!

February 15
Yokohama, Japan

This wording is something I haven't seen before...

Noon to 4 PM

Chief Engineer Geo. W. Magee USN left the ship, having been condemned by survey & detached.

On the first of February, we sent a Pay Clerk to replace the Paymaster on the Ossipee who was discharged from duty. That wording is fairly common, but not condemned by survey. That seems to be the fate of things like 1,000 pounds of bread. At least they didn't throw Chief Engineer Geo. W. Magee overboard.

16 February 1886
8 PM : Lat 34° 34' 00"N, Long 138° 46' 00"E

Ship heading West.

At 9:00 PM sighted bright red light broad off starboard bow having the appearance of Volcanic eruption on shore.

Michael wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 3:59 pm February 15
Yokohama, Japan

This wording is something I haven't seen before...

Noon to 4 PM

Chief Engineer Geo. W. Magee USN left the ship, having been condemned by survey & detached.

On the first of February, we sent a Pay Clerk to replace the Paymaster on the Ossipee who was discharged from duty. That wording is fairly common, but not condemned by a board of survey. That seems to be the fate of things like 1,000 pounds of bread. At least they didn't throw Chief Engineer Geo. W. Magee overboard.

I've seen exactly the same wording, "condemned by a Board of Survey", on the Shenandoah in 1872. I was wondering about it too. The two cases I've seen so far, the condemned were put on a ship headed back to the U.S. In a couple of other cases it just said that the seamen were condemned by survey and sent back to the U.S., but it didn't say that they were condemned by a Board of Survey.

I re-read my post. I had inadvertently added "board of" in my notes. The log said just condemned by survey.

Now that you mention it, I'm not sure. I've definitely seen both "condemned" and "condemned by survey", but not sure about "condemned by Board of Survey". It would be difficult to go back and look because I don't remember what the dates were and I didn't transcribe those entries.

You have me curious now though. I'll watch for these entries going forward. It must have been a standard procedure since it has appeared in logs on two ships four years apart.

Also, Condemned by Medical survey

Randi wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:21 am Also, Condemned by Medical survey

My guess has been that it's medically related, but none of the entries so far have explicitly said anything about the reason for the condemnation. If it was due to misconduct, they would be expelled or discharged rather than condemned. When food or items are condemned, it's because they have rotted or worn out. When applied to a person, a medical reason seems like the only thing that would be consistent with the other condemnations.

Yes.
Commander Woodward assumed command of this ship - relieving Commander Miller who is detached and placed on sick leave

March 10
Shanghai

A communication dated March 9^th, 1886, was received from the Acting Consul General at this port stating that Ths Leaford (Lds) of this ship had been convicted in the Consular Court of the crime of robbery, & had been sentenced to confinement in the U.S. Consular Jail at Shanghai for the period of two (2) years, at hard labor, or at any other prison the authorities of the United States may designate.

March 21
Shanghai

At 1:30 PM a junk, in attempting to cross the bow, drifted into this vessel carrying away port gob rope, 2^nd Cutter, and all stbd gangway stanchions.

March 23
Shanghai

At 1:30 AM the Chinese Steamer Wing Lee, in backing up stream, struck our starboard quarter davits with her port bow, wrecking them, displacing 3^rd Cutter, carrying away the 2^nd Whale boat, which was picked up, up stream.

Hint, hint, hint.

Unlike me, they didn't have a course in defensive parking.