Old Weather Forum

Welcome to the log book of the California from 4th December 1894 to 7th November 1895. Mastered by Ellsworth West. This is the twin of the California KWM logbook LINK.

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 in this board
• 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

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..

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Journey section and transcribers	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A: Captain (Stream A), shiplover 1st Mate (Stream B), k2reid Boatsteerer (Stream C), Jakob	18941204 18950130 18950316	18950129 18950315 18950422	South to Hawaii and Guam	The log book pages jump around! Please use the start and end urls here to find your way around. They find Right Whales between Guam and Hokkaido Island
B: Captain (Stream A): shiplover 1st Mate (Stream B): k2reid Boatsteerer (Stream C): jakob	18950423	18950807	Heading up the west side of the Pacific and anchoring at Dutch Harbor	Some whaling, very little else to report
C: Captain (Stream A): shiplover 1st Mate (Stream B): k2reid Boatsteerer (Stream C): jakob	18950808	18951107	Right up to 71 degrees North	They cross paths with the familiar whalers of the eastern side of the Bering Sea

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Thank you for your help