HebesDad wrote:Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:02 am So, for some perverse reason I've been hoping to get to a force 11 entry, and for the first time I've seen in a log entry: Valerian sat in Bermuda through a hurricane, see https://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM ... 0014_0.jpg and https://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM ... 0014_1.jpg - the page needs re-assembing but it's there force 11 and followed by 12 and an illegible word.
Valerian lost a mast - but Dartmouth who was there too had it worse - some sort of fire!
jil wrote:Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:23 am Is the word after the 12 'calm'?
It seemed a bit bizarre to me at first but the entry in remarks at about the same time mentions the lull centre of the hurrican passing.
Bunting Tosser wrote:Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:13 amjil wrote:Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:23 am Is the word after the 12 'calm'?
It seemed a bit bizarre to me at first but the entry in remarks at about the same time mentions the lull centre of the hurrican passing.
Oh, that word; I was looking in "Remarks".
I believe you're right. The "Calm before the (remainder of) the storm". The "eye" of the hurricane.
bpb42 wrote:Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:10 pm Both HMS Constance & HMS Capetown were also in Bermuda on 21st Sept' 1922, and also give accounts of the storm.
I don't think we have had the logpage from Dartmouth for that day yet.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -012_1.jpg
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM% ... -087_1.jpg
Tredegar wrote:Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:01 pm Interesting reading the log for Capetown. HMS Dartmouth had a fire and a Stoker presumed drowned.
JamesAPrattIII wrote:Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:53 pm The book "A Sailor's Odessey" by A. B Cunningham has an account of this hurricane which the author was there when it happened.
bpb42 wrote:Tue May 08, 2012 11:05 pm ... and HMS Mutine makes four, but unlike the other ships she was moored in the harbour at Hamilton, not at the RN Dockyard, when the hurricane hit Bermuda.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/oldweather/ADM ... 0179_0.jpg