Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, knots, fathoms, courses steered, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
If the ship is not moving (e.g., at anchor), knots, fathoms, and courses steered do not need to be transcribed. In that case, the course is usually the ship's heading.

On the events page please enter: location information, sailing information, and any mentions of ice.
In general there is no need to include comments about the weather unless there is something unusual or extreme.
Comments about problems with or changes of the weather instruments are very rare but should be noted.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be transcribed, but if they are seen on the following days they don't have to be transcribed again. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings.
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 2).

Every page needs to have a date. The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Tuscarora: general for some general background and discussion.
See Tuscarora: 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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I'll reserve this very exciting year

The URLs on the spreadsheet are broken

For this year the link is

NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-011/581208-tuscarora-025-

Whereas I think it should be

NARAprodstorage/lz/dc-metro/rg-024/581208/2020-03/581208-tuscarora-025/581208-tuscarora-025-

The others look to have the same problem

I'll check it out.

I don't know what happened there. However, I think they're all fixed. Here's a link to the spreadsheet. I just updated the link.

Completed this month

Wow! That year sure went fast!

I'm breathlessly waiting for Michael's plot

You have to wait a while. I'm currently processing Villalobos 1916, and Lackawanna is next in line.

The Villalobos job is slow: sailing back and forth between Shanghai and Hankow with no distances logged, and with just a time of departure from one place and a time of arrival at the next. On occasion they record a position in the middle. It's a case of measuring the distance between two points, dividing by the travel time to get an average speed and, from that, calculating each hourly position one at a time.


05:22 Got underway from Kiang Yen.
13:52 Anchored off Chinkiang.





And so it goes, all the way to Hankow. Shanghai to Hankow is 560 nautical miles.

The voyage for 1872 has been completed, with thanks to 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 was one person mentioned here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	744
Kts	744
Baro	744
Attd	744
Dry	744
Wet	744
Water	24
Weather	744
Clouds	722
Clear	732
Total	6,686

Tuscarora travelled a total of 1,298 miles.