Old Weather Forum

Welcome to the log book of the Mary and Helen 1879-1880

If you would like to work on a section of the log please

• leave a note in the next available reply section of this board below
• remember to say which section you would like to work on
• a link to the workbook, for your transcriptions, will be provided to you by personal message
• let us know if you would rather work in Excel, LibreCalc, or Google Sheets
• each section of the log must be transcribed by three different transcribers

Where to start once I have my log section and workbook?
Please ensure that you read these information pages before transcribing

1. Transcribing: capturing the log details, and information resources
2. Transcribing: managing your recording workbook

Dates are in the format YYYYMMDD. Links to log book pages are shown in blue

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Journey section/Users (3)	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A** AvastMH (StrmA); (Stream B - not yet done); (Stream C - not yet done)	18790909	18800102	Southern Pacific Ocean	Ship just turned about to head from Lat 50 S to the Arctic Ocean
B AvastMH (StrmA); (Streams B, & C - not yet done)	18800103	18800323	Mid Pacific Ocean	Crossing the equator heading northwards
C SPHolmes (Strm A); AvastMH (Strm B); (?CATPerrault - Strm C)	18800403*	18800530	North Pacific Ocean	Raised the ice 18800429
D SPHolmes (Strm A); Thursday Next (Strm B), jil (Strm C);	18800531	18800730	Arctic Ocean (Chukchi Sea)	June and July 1880
E arboggs (Strm A), hannahggorton (Strm B)/Browndogger, AvastMH (Strm C)	18800731	18801012	Arctic Ocean to San Francisco Harbor	At 18800930 south of Latitude 50 degrees North

Notes
1. *The dates 24th March to 2nd April 1880 are missing, the hand entered page numbers jump from 47 to 51
2. **Journey section A will be worked on after the other sections are complete to allow us to provide ice information in the first instance

Thank you for your help