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 Chelan — General for some general background and discussion.
See Chelan — 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'll start working on this one, although I'm sure someone will be finishing a voyage in the very near future.

Saturday, 29 June 1935
Unalaska

1630

Delivered to Commander, Bearing Sea Patrol Force two tennis nets, one box of steel dies and one lawn mower which had been received in Seattle for transportation to Unalaska, Alaska.

Do you think the lawn mower for grass courts?

Thursday, July 4, 1935
Unalaska

0900

Observed Independence day as a holiday.
Held rowing races among the Tahoe, Chelan, Calypso and Alert. Tahoe won one race and Chelan won three races.

Wednesday, 10 July, 1935
Chichagof Harbor
Attu Island

1400

Party of Aleuts came aboard to view moving picture.

I will do the last months of this year. (September / October)

Roger! As for Ashuelot, I have done my first pass creating the spreadsheet. Randi has to check it over, and there are a couple of other things I need to do, but it should be ready some time tomorrow...

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September 7th
Chief PhM Kenneth K Brown assisted in the embalming of the body of Nilores Mac Scott, niece of CRM Henry A Scott attached to the Navel Radio Station at Dutch Harbor. Embalming fluid was supplied by the Chelan.

Wow! Who knew that the ship was prepared for embalming.

I do remember having to put a couple of bodies into a barrel of alcohol and lash them to the deck to bring them back to the USA. (Forget which ship.)

Me, too. Maybe Concord...

Finished Sept/Oct

Most exciting day in September was when we towed the target for the Northland to fire at and hope she did not hit us. Rest of time in port Unalaska and Dutch Hbr.

Good job! I'll eventually finish the month I'm working on. Randi found a couple things I have to fix on Ashuelot, so the spreadsheet should be coming soon.

August 26, 1935
53 56N 179 31E

At 1940 sent following radiogram to Commander, Bering Sea Patrol Force:

6026 If meets your approval request you send following message to Headquarters information Hydrographic Navy comma Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Commander Seattle Division for Doctor Phifer, University of Washington quote Chelan has found a submerged mountain range in Bering Sea with a well defined ridge from nine to eleven thousand feet above ocean floor period Range begins in Latitude five five longitude East one seven six rising abruptly ten thousand eight hundred feet from a depth of twenty one hundred fathoms then curving northeasterly to Bowers Bank and thence southerly to Aleutian Chain period. Average width thousand fathom curve thirty miles period. Depth of water over ridge varies averaging about three hundred fathoms, least depths found being seventy four fathoms comma one four zero fathoms comma and numerous two hundred fathom spots extreme irregularity suggests other peaks and pinnacles closer to surface period. This discovery apparently confirms theory understood to be held by doctor Lyman Phifer, University of Washington relative to existence of such a range somewhere in Bering Sea period. Request Headquarters furnish suitable name to be given this subsea range period. Charts soundings samples of bottom and other supporting data will be forwarded.

I have shaded the depths as follows:

• less than 400 fathoms have a dark blue font and blue background;
• 400-1,000 fathoms have a grey background; and,
• more than one 1,000 fathoms have a very light grey background.

10 September, 1935
Alaska Commercial Dock, Unalaska

1003: Got Underway. Into Iliuliuk Bay
1106: Stopped. Pumping oil and water overboard.

I guess those were the days.

The bad old days...

The voyage for 1935 has been completed, with a little help from my friend Stuart, who did the last two months.

You can see the plot of voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were some mentions of people, which you can see here. This completes all the work for Chelan at this time. Who knows, the science team may one day want the data from the East Coast.