Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (knots and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Manning -- General for some general background and discussion.
See Manning -- Examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

OW web site: Manning

Direct links:

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• Transcription Status

For intermediate level transcribers

Hi,

I'm going to pick up May and June for now

Great!
Welcome back

3rd June 1913: Passed "Northland" on the journey North.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 3_0155.JPG

I hope you saluted!

Oh we boarded

It was the gas schooner Northland, not our Coast Guard ship
It appears to have been in the lumber trade. See bottom section (Portland) of the middle column of https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn ... d-1/seq-5/

OG2617 is doing July.

I am going to move on to September

Great!

The logbook for Manning on September 17th, 1913, provides a story of the dangers at sea during this period. Two seaman left Manning in an otter boat for a camp on the beach of Kiska Island harbor. They got lost in the heavy fog and didn't return to the ship at the appointed time. The ship crew couldn't search for them until the next day and found their otter boat near shore but with 2 inches of water in it and missing some apparatus as though it had drifted to that point. No sign of the 2 seaman after an extensive search. Probable cause is that they left the ballast intended for their boat on the Manning and had been warned the boat could capsize without it.

Thanks for posting that!

Hopefully the rest of Manning's crew learned from that loss.

I am going to move on to October.

Super!