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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 Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
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I'll make a start on this year

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2-0005.JPG

1005 Ensign R.F. Shunk departed in boat 5 with party of five from ship and with Alaska Game Commissioner H.F. Gallwas and Otto Kappen as passengers to investigate poaching on North Island and Observation Island

1400 Boat 5 returned to ship. August Tiederman was brought back as prisoner of Alaska Game Commissioner H.F. Gallwas. Three portions of deer carcss were brought back as material evidence.

It appears the page for the 4th of March is missing

It happens sometimes...

The first half on the year is completed and uploaded as she heads back toward Seattle in the second half of June

The first few months are spent mostly in port in Cordova, then she spent most of May and June travelling along the coast providing court and medical services to the coastal comminities in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

She makes another brief stop at the Columbia Glacier in June just before heading back to Seattle as well.

Looking ahead, it appears she spends the rest of the year based in Juneau

Ships spotted in the first half of the year:

Alert
Cyane
Morris
Tallapoosa
Samuel D. Ingham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Ingham_(WHEC-35))
Northland

Cordova you say???

Cordova?
Hum... I seem to remember seeing that place mentioned.

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 8-0035.JPG

1600 Noted Private Robert W. Been U.S.A. to be intoxicated
Upon investigation found padlock on Haida's medical locker in sick bay to have been broken off and that 12 pints of medical liquor were missing.
Commanding officer of troops made an immediate + thorough investigation + placed Been under arrest and preferred charges against him for trial by Army General Court Martial
3 2/3 pints of liquor were found in Been's belongings

Where there's a will, there's a way!!!

Complete this year, second half of the year was spent mainly operating around Juneau, with a few trip further afield, including taking 100+ infantry men to Valdez and back. If I were to guess I'd say the Spencer took over Haida's duties at Cordova .

Other ships encountered in the second half:

U.S.S. Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chicago_(CA-29))
U.S.S. Dallas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Dallas_(DD-199))
U.S.S. Wasmuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wasmuth)
U.S.S. Long (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Long)
Army Tug James Florance
[John C.] Spencer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Spencer_(WPG-36)) 
Tallapoosa
U.S.S. Sandpiper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sandpiper_(AM-51))
Cyane
Atalanta
Morris
Shoshone
U.S.F.S. Penguin
Cedar Lighthouse tender

It's in the queue after Hanibal's Haida 1924 and Stuart's Manning 1911.

Michael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:11 am

It's in the queue after Hanibal's Haida 1924 and Stuart's Manning 1911.

We do our best to make sure you don't get bored, Michael

The voyage for 1937 has been done. Once again, it was great work by Joke_Slayer who had to contend with one log keeper who loved a tiny script.. You can see the voyage plot here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.