Bear (1917) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Bear (1917) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Michael has done Ice Hunting for this year, but at that time the science team only wanted 8am, noon, and 8pm locations.
The science team now wants the hourly distances and courses.
Since this year was not transcribed during OW3, the science team would also like to have all the weather.

On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances, courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
(The weather data requested here is the same as it was during OW3.)
One weather transcription (Stream 1 in the Tracker and highlighted in orange) is sufficient.

On the events page please enter: date, location information and sailing information.
Other events are optional. Since Michael has already done the ice, mentions of ice are optional.

One person can do both weather and events, but the system allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Ice hunting and/or Stream 3).

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.
(If one transcriber does events and weather and they are in the same image, the date is only entered once)



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Re: Bear (1917) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Hanibal94 wrote:Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:42 pm On September 13th, a search party went to Nunavik Island to investigate alleged misconduct by a native, but found one village deserted.
So they set off to visit another village on the north side of the island (8 AM - 4 PM section)
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 59_307.jpg

They did not return until the next day, and had been exposed to rain and inclement weather all night with no shelter - yikes!
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 59_308.jpg

Nothing about the north village or native, though. At least not as far as I can tell. Will keep an eye out in coming pages.

Hanibal94 wrote:Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:59 pm October done and uploaded. No ice, but she got caught in a big storm in the last few days - the wind went all the way to 10!

When I'm back from the US, I will start November.

Michael wrote:Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:07 pm With the U.S. not declaring war on Germany until April 6, 1917, I found this interesting:


Sunday, Feb. 4, 1917
Sausalito, CA
4 p.m. to Mid.
Received following radiogram from Division Commander: "Take immediate action on instructions sent to you by radio by Collector of Customs in regard to interned vessels. Any officers and Crew of Bear ashore will be recalled at once. acknowledge 19304 Reynolds.

Picket boast guarding German vessels in Richardson Bay.

Monday, Feb. 5, 1917
Sausalito, CA
Mid to 9 AM
Detailed boats for picket duty on interned German vessels in Richardson Bay.

9 AM to 4 PM
11:15, received signal from German bark "Ottawa" - "W MK" "I wish to speak to you". Sent officer over who returned with the master, Otto Heinatz. The mast said he was hungry and wanted to know if he could go ashore to purchase mess provisions. This request was not granted, but the master was given some lunch and put back on the "Ottawa".

Gave one Coston signal holder and 5 red lights to Mr. McCloskey on board the "Neptune" for signalling purposes.

4:00 Withdrew boats from picket duty, constant night and day patrol and picket duty around anchorage of interned German vessels and established a night patrol of two hour intervals with power launch in accordance with orders from Division Commander received this day.

10:45 Making patrol trips with motor launch round the "Ottawa", "Neptune" and "Atlas" every two hours.

Note 1 - Received following radiogram: "order of today regarding crews of interned vessels so modified as to permit masters of Ottawa and Neptune to land for provisions etc. 16305"

From Wikipedia
As a result of U-boat attacks on U.S. shipping to Britain, the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on February 4, 1917.
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Re: Bear (1917) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Michael wrote:Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:05 pm The voyage for 1917 is done and you can see it here. And what a nasty piece of work. Illegible writing, ink spills, badly creased pages hiding some columns, crossed out and over-written lines. A challenge for the intrepid Hanibal who faced all the difficulties with grace and aplomb!
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