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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 Omaha: general for some general background and discussion.
See Omaha: examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

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31 January
Shanghai

At 10.45 PM Joseph Gillick (C.H.) was brought on board by a shipmate, drunk and dirty, with a knife wound over the right eye, and his wound was dressed by the P. S. Surgeon.

11 February
Kobe, Japan

At 1:45 PM 1^st Sergeant William Lutz, U.S.M.C., died on board.

At 2.15 called all hands bury the Dead and at 2.30 the remains of William Lutz late 1^st Sergeant U.S.M.C., were sent ashore for burial escorted by a funeral party consisting of the Band, Firing party o Marines, pall bearers, the 2^nd Company of Blue Jackets and a detail of petty officers, all under the Command of Lt. Comdr. Reisinger with Lt. Minett and Lt. Cook in charge of companies, and Carpenter J. G. Filden in charge of boats on the beach. Half-masted the colors upon their embarkation. The colors of the U.S. Consulate were also half-masted.

RIP William Lutz, Sergeant USMC.

25 February
Yokohama, Japan

At 8:00 we half-masted colors with the Japanese man-of-war and fired 19 guns at intervals of 5 minutes between each gun, folowing the motion of the Japanese man-of-war, in honor of the death of Prince Sanjo.

4 March
Yokohama

At 7.45 B Kane (O.S.) while being policed and in single irons escaped from the ship out of the head. Lowered a boat and searched for the escaped prisoner, but failed to find him.
8:00 PM. Sent a reward of ten yen ashore for the apprehension and delivery on board of B. Kane (O.S.).

5 March
Yokohama, Japan

4 AM to 8 AM

By order of the Comdg Officer confined M. Mortenson (Sea) J. Kelly (P.M.) and G. Gregory (P.M.) in single irons to await action on account of the escape of the prisoner B. Kane (O.S.) while under their charge.

8 PM to Midnight

At 8.15 by order of Comdg. Officer placed Jas. Rocks (C.H.) and W. Jennings (P.M.) in single irons under sentry's charge to await action for being under the influence of liquor on duty. At 8.28 in consequence of a disturbance amongst the prisoners on the berth deck, beat to quarters for muster; found no change in absentees since A.M. muster. The principals concerned in the disturbances W. Jennings (P.M.) and Jas. Rocks (C.H.) were placed in double irons. By order of the Comdg. Officer, J. Kelly (P.M.) was released from confinement and restored to duty for commendable conduct in assisting to quell a disturbance amongst the prisoners, while himself a prisoner.

April 6
8 AM : Lat 36° 08' 00"N, Long 135° 27' 30"W

Heavy, short, following sea. Using oil from both forward water closets under topglt forecastle. Effect of the oil on the water very marked in keeping seas from breaking.

Some lengthy quotes from Benjamin Franklin, Pliny the Elder and others.

Pouring oil on troubled waters

More at "Storm oil" in the OWpedia

Having grown up in Santa Rosa, the first thing that comes to my mind when I see Pliny the Elder is this, https://www.russianriverbrewing.com/pliny-the-elder/

I had never heard of intentionally using oil to calm water.

San Diego
7 May

At 11.50 we grounded on the middle ground entering the harbor of San Diego. At 12.11 the tug boat Santa Fe came alongside and assisted in getting the ship afloat, which was accomplished by 12.40. Pilot James Keith came on board from the tug and piloted ship to anchorage. At 12.41 let go stbd anchor. At 12.51 hove up stbd anchor and got under way and stood in for anchorage and at 1.37 let go stbd anchor off coal dock.

You could have done worse...
USS San Francisco Investigation Completed
How did a $3 billion US Navy submarine hit an undersea mountain?

We did set the bar pretty low... Actually, the bar was probably higher than we thought, because we couldn't cross it...

The voyage for 1891 has been done. This completes all the voyages for this ship. 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 people mentioned here.


These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	3431
Kts	3414
Baro	3419
Attd	3419
Dry	3420
Wet	3420
Water	1493
Weather	3420
Clouds	3420
Clear	3390
Total	32246

Omaha travelled a total of 9,174 miles.