Old Weather Forum

tastiger wrote: HMS Tarantula's done:
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg *
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -003_0.jpg

*Note: VERY important information on this page; it brings a lot of barometric readings into question!
29 August page: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -017_1.jpg

Randi wrote: Am I reading that right - An ant's nest?

tastiger wrote:

randi_2 wrote: Am I reading that right - An ant's nest?

Huh, I didn't see the ant's nest part. You'd think they notice that...

cyzaki wrote: Yup, it's definitely "showed to contain an ants nest & be otherwise defective". How does an ants nest wind up inside a barometer on a ship in the middle of the sea?

tastiger wrote:

cyzaki wrote: Yup, it's definitely "showed to contain an ants nest & be otherwise defective". How does an ants nest wind up inside a barometer on a ship in the middle of the sea?

The ants might of been there for a while. It definitely bring a lot of barometric readings into question...

Janet Jaguar wrote:

http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -002_1.jpg *
*Note: VERY important information on this page; it brings a lot of barometric readings into question! If anyone's curious of what the page with that date looks like, here it is: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -017_1.jpg

I PMed that one to Philip, to hang on his office wall. Truly wild, especially since it happened on an insect-class gunboat! ;D

philip.brohan wrote: Many thanks for the ants example - it's very timely as I'm giving a presentation on oldWeather to an assembly of climate scientists this Wednesday (I'll do a blog about this shortly) and this is a perfect illustration of the quality of the instruments and observations - the ships didn't usually carry reference-quality instruments and professional meteorologists, but they did care about instrument calibration and the accuracy of their measurements. So I'm going to show that page as an illustration of this.

But there are two words there I can't read. It says "This aneroid is being [something] & until a [something] is received the Captains ..." I'm pretty sure you are now much better at reading the logs than I am, so if you can decipher this, what do you think it says?

Thanks,

Philip

Log page: http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM%2053-62354/ADM%2053-62354-002_1.jpg

Caro wrote: I think its says "This aneroid is being surveyed and until a new is received....".

ElisabethB wrote: That is also what I'm reading !
(and Caro beat me to it ! ;D)

Kathy wrote: that says This aneroid is being surveyed and until a new is received the Captai's private barograph will be used.

ta -

Kathy W.

philip.brohan wrote: Thank you Els, Caro and Kathy - I'd thought of 'scrapped' and 'scavenged' (neither of which looked right) but not 'surveyed'. I'm not sure why the Navy think surveying it is the right action (as opposed to cleaning it or just throwing it overboard), but I'm fully persuaded that that's what they've written.