Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles 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 Haida — General for some general background and discussion.
See Haida — 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.

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I will do this one.

April complete. Most interesting bit was on the 29th, when she helped tow a ship with broken propellers to Dutch Harbor:
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4-0033.JPG

The data for May 15th and 16th has been split in a way that suggests they crossed the International Date Line, but the lat/long data doesn't match that.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5-0020.JPG
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5-0021.JPG

Not sure why it was recorded this way.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line, the International Date Line "passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups. "

Ah right - I forgot about that!

May done. There was some back-and-forth over the International Date line, as they visited briefly visited Siberia.
Also saw some mentions of the "Seattle" plane from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aer ... navigation - it sounds like the Haida was involved in the search, although she wasn't the one to find the crew, and later heard that the other planes continued.

June done, nothing special really - although I did see a mention with the Pioneer, which I transcribed a lot myself... seven years ago!

You're getting old, Chris

Oi! I take offense to that!

July done. Most interesting bit was when they towed the steamer "West Jena" to Dutch Harbor - and just after she was anchored, gale force winds knocked her loose and the Haida, along with one other ship, had to save her.
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 7-0026.JPG
https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 7-0027.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Empire_ships_(O) wrote:Empire Ocelot

Empire Ocelot was a 5,866 GRT cargo ship that was built by Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock Co, Seattle, Washington. She was launched in 1919 as West Jena for the USSB [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... ping_Board]. She was sold in 1925 to Forest Transportation Corporation, Seattle and was renamed Myrtle. Sold in 1930 to the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Corporation, Portland, Oregon and renamed San Marcos. To MoWT in 1940 and renamed Empire Ocelot. Torpedoed and sunk on 28 September 1940 by U-32 in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2836258 ... -examiner/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2836266 ... -examiner/

August done. In the first half of the month, they went to Seattle to deliver the body of someone from the Algonquin, and to drop off a "destitute seaman".

Also, while in Unalaska I saw a mention of a basketball game with the Pioneer's crew - it unfortunately didn't say who won.