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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 July, arrived in Callao, Peru to find the Chilian [sic] navy blockading it with warships from several other countries present


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1135 Mist clearing away sighted San Lorenzo Lt and Chilian blockading squadron on port bow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru
In 1879 Peru entered the War of the Pacific, which lasted until 1884. Bolivia invoked its alliance with Peru against Chile. The Peruvian Government tried to mediate the dispute by sending a diplomatic team to negotiate with the Chilean government, but the committee concluded that war was inevitable. Chile declared war on 5 April 1879.

Year completed,

Started in Hawaii, then spend some time in Mare Island before cruising along the coast to Callao.

Spent the second half of the year travelling up and down the Peruvian coast, hosting various diplomats, as well as observing occasional combat between Chilean ships and Peruvian batteries and ships and at one point made a trip transporting some refugees

I'm still in California, and I'll get to this after I get back to Victoria and finish Lackawanna 1879.

Another voyage completed, another wonderful job by the Joke Slayer. 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.

This voyage means we just passed 8.5 million weather records transcribed since the start of the US Federal Ships project!

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	8,772
Kts	8,771
Baro	8,772
Attd	8,772
Dry	8,772
Wet	8,752
Water	1,894
Weather	8,748
Clouds	8,748
Clear	8,748
Total	80,749

Lackawanna travelled a total of 10,321 miles.