Old Weather Forum

Welcome on board the Orca, Steam Bark of San Francisco, on voyage from the 30th March 1897 to 18th September 1897, mastered by Albert C. Sherman.

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 (Captain/Stream A, First Mate/Stream B, and Boatsteerer/Stream C
  )

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

Journey section / Users	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A Captain: Saletnikk First Mate: marmaduke Boatsteerer: arboggs	18970330	18970627	Looping around the Bering Straits/St Lawrence Island area	Plenty of 'tied up to the ice' reported.
B Captain: Saletnikk First Mate: marmaduke Boatsteerer: arboggs	18970628	18970918	Mostly northeast of the Bering Strait	In the end the sea ice wins and the crew move to the Belvedere as the Orca sinks off the Sea Horse Islands

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Note
This ship log is working on Civil time:
August 5th 1897 [...]at 10 A.M. steamed around [...] at 10 P.M. then steared [...]
https://archive.org/details/logbookofor ... 0/mode/1up

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Thank you for your help

Just about done Captaining Mermaid so I'll sign on as a Boatsteerer here

arboggs wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:58 pm Just about done Captaining Mermaid so I'll sign on as a Boatsteerer here

Thank you!! Its always good to get a log book finished. Cheers Boatsteerer!