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These are the latest ship histories to be added to Naval-History.Net.

USRC Thetis, January 1901 to December 1902, US West Coast, Bering Sea and Alaskan Waters
Edited by Matteo Gramigni, Old Weather Transcriber, Prato, Italy

USRC Bear, March 1892 to December 1893, US West Coast and Alaskan Waters.
Edited by Janet Lomas, Old Weather Transcriber, Lancashire, UK

USC&GSS Pioneer, January 1924 to December 1925, Alaskan Waters, US Pacific Coast.
Edited by Rosemary, Old Weather Transcriber, Renfrewshire

USS Yorktown, October 1906 to December 1907, North and Central American waters.
Edited by Maikel Noordeloos, Old Weather transcriber, Veldhoven, The Netherlands

USS Burton Island, December 1946 to December 1947, US West Coast via New Zealand to Antarctica and back, Alaskan Waters, US West Coast to Antarctica
Edited by John Fisher, Historian, Southampton. Grandson of ERA Alfred Fisher, lost with HMS Viknor

USRC Thetis, April 1899 to December 1900, US West Coast, Bering Sea, Alaskan and Russian Waters
Edited by Matteo Gramigni, Old Weather Transcriber, Prato, Italy

USS Yorktown, January to June 1903, Asian Waters, US West Coast
Edited by Maikel Noordeloos, Old Weather transcriber, Veldhoven, The Netherlands

USS Burton Island: January to December 1955, Alaskan Waters, Bering Sea, Northern Canadian Waters
Edited by Ron Weil, Historian, Oregon City, Oregon, USA

USC&GSS Carlile P. Patterson: January 1898 to December 1899, American West Coast, Alaskan Waters
Edited by Keith Ball, Old Weather Transcriber, Somerset, UK

USS Jamestown: May 1879 to September 1881, US Pacific coast, survey of Sitka Harbor
Edited by Maikel Noordeloos, Old Weather transcriber, Veldhoven, The Netherlands

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23 March 2020

Maikel has published the edited logs of HMS Endeavour, with four Journey Plotter maps.
Many thanks to editor and mapmaker, Kay, again.

25 March 2020

This one is an update but paeans welcome all the same.

Paul has overhauled the logs of HMS Cricket and made four new Journey Plotter maps.
"Broken links fixed and new ones added, lots of better positions, several new ships identified correctly, officers named etc".
Thanks Paul.

13 April 2020

Another update and a newcomer to the editorial credits.
Dean has updated the logs of HMS M.23; Matteo provided expertise with the Russian and Norwegian place names.
There are two new Journey Plotter maps, made by me.
Thanks Dean and Matteo!

22 April 2020

Published today, Keith's edited logs of USRC Thomas Corwin, 1881, with two Journey Plotter maps.
Thank you Keith.

10 May 2020

Paul's published edit of HMS Bluebell has been updated (broken links fixed, corrections and refinements made). There are new Journey Plotter maps as well.
Thanks to Paul and publisher Maikel.

24 May 2020

Another update.
Maikel has published Dean's updated logs of M.24, with geographical assistance from Matteo and with improved navigation and a new Journey Plotter map from me.
Go team!

27 June 2020

The edited logs of USS Yorktown: January 1891 to December 1892, with four Journey Plotter maps, have been published.
Editing, map-making and publishing by Maikel. Bravo!

2 July 2020

Caro's edited logs of USS Vicksburg 1897-1899 have been published, with two very nice Journey Plotter maps.
Thanks to Maikel for proofreading and general fixing!

15 July 2020

Paul's updated edit of HMS Thistle I, with new JP maps, has been published.
Cheers Paul.

John's edited logs of USCGC Unalga, 1942-43, with two JP maps, have been published.
Thanks John!

Back to the RN today.
Janet's edited logs of HMS Veronica, with eight Journey Plotter maps, have been published.
Good work, Janet!

And back to my countdown rhymes!

Six little warships,
In the Maldives.
One dropped the barometer
And then there were five!

HMS Eskimo has been revised.
More detail has been included from the logs, and some place names and positions have been corrected.

https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-W ... Eskimo.htm

Dead-reckoning positions have been added to the journey of HMS Eskimo in Journey Plotter.
It adds quite a bit of detail, especially to her patrolling duties in the North Atlantic.



HMS Eskimo is quite special to us, back in the day she was edited by Gordon Smith.

HM Trawler Saxon has been revised.
More detail has been included from the logs, some formatting changes, and links to scanned pages have been duplicated for each day, the logs recorded two or more days per page.
Noon positions have been added for each day, determined from mentioned landmarks or estimated, not a single position was recorded in the logs.

https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-W ... _Saxon.htm

Hundreds of additional positions have been added to HM Trawler Saxon's journey in Journey Plotter.

It's another one of Gordon's.
Had he been born some decades earlier he could have seen the trawler sail passed Penarth.

HMS Eclipse has been revised; more detail from logs included and a few place names corrected.
On this voyage HMS Eclipse escorted Royal Australian Navy's submarines AE1 and AE2 from Portsmouth to Colombo.

https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-W ... clipse.htm

Where available additional positions have been added to her journey in Journey Plotter.

Paul has updated his edited WWI logs of HMS Dwarf: a general tidy-up, broken links repaired, new links added, new Journey Plotter maps and information added. Thanks Paul!
http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW ... _Dwarf.htm

Gordon's HMS Gloucester has been revised; more detail from logs included and one or two corrections made.

https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-W ... cester.htm

Where available additional positions have been added to her journey in Journey Plotter.

Gordon's HMS Snipe has been revised.

Positions have been added for each day.
No positions were recorded in these logs, nor were many landmarks mentioned.
The positions are therefore estimates, based on the hours sailed.
Also, one or two corrections, and more detail has been included from the logs.

https://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-W ... _Snipe.htm

John's edited logs of USCGC Unalga I 1944-45 have been published, with two Journey Plotter maps.
Thanks John!
Thanks also to Matteo for compiling the monthly lists of officers, crew and passengers.