Welcome on board the Stamboul (Bark) out of San Francisco, California. Mastered by S.C. Waldron. Kept by Benjamin F. Sparks. On voyage from March 15, 1892 – October 23, 1892 to the North Pacific Ocean.
Why you will see the name of the Rosario in all of the references:
The voyage is written in a logbook commencing with the Schooner Rosario's voyage. You will see that description on the National Archive image webpage: "Rosario (Schooner), of San Francisco, Calif., mastered by Edwin Coffin, kept by Benjamin F. Sparks on voyage from 24 Mar. 1891-6 Nov 1891"
My sincere thanks to April (arboggs) for using her Librarian skills to locate the Stamboul's journey.
Joan (AvastMH)
Here you will find an example transcription of details
This is also a place to ask questions and request help with oddities in the log
You can bring the ship to life by sharing interesting finds from the log pages and other information about the ship
General help with marking and transcribing whaling logs
Weather and ice records from the whaling ships of the USA which contains the following
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Treasure trove of information in the Library
Over the years this forum has accumulated a broad spectrum of detailed information which is kept in the
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Names of the crew
Names of the crew and notes of other ships mentioned or visited can also be recorded.
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You can walk through Stamboul's log pages in chronological order. All you have to do is increment the number at the end of the link: page/
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197/mode/1up, page/
198/mode/1up etc.
Here is a log page that has been transcribed to help you to be familiar with the writing.
August 8th to and including August 13th, 1892 (The Archive has an error and will likely load page 217 - move forward to page 220)
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Here is a transcription of the above log page.
| Simple transcription | Phrases of text bracketed |
Monday Aug 8th
Comes in with fresh winds from the SW
and squally Latter part wind more
moderate and rainy | Monday [Aug 8th]
[Comes in] with [fresh winds from the SW
and squally] [Latter part] [wind more
moderate and rainy]
|
Tuesday Aug 9th
Comes in with light winds from the NE and
clear middle part foggy latter part clear
and moderate Lat 57=20 |
Tuesday [Aug 9th]
[Comes in] with [light winds from the NE] and
[clear] [middle part] [foggy] [latter part] [clear]
and [moderate] [Lat 57=20] |
Wednesday Aug 10th
Comes in with light winds from the NW and
pleasant middle part foggy latter part
quite clear gammed with the Jesse Freeman |
Wednesday [Aug 10th]
[Comes in] with [light winds from the NW and
pleasant] [middle part] [foggy] [latter part]
[quite clear] [gammed with the Jesse Freeman] |
Thursday Aug 11th
Comes in with fresh winds from the NW
saw the Jesse Freeman in sight latter
part foggy lowered for a right whale proved to
be a humpback | Thursday [Aug 11th]
[Comes in] with [fresh winds from the NW]
[saw the Jesse Freeman in sight] [latter
part] [foggy] lowered for a right whale proved to
be a humpback |
Friday 12th Aug
Comes in with light winds from the NW
and pleasant saw a large lot of Finbacks
and considerable feed in the water latter
part very light winds | Friday [12th Aug]
[Comes in] with [light winds from the NW
and pleasant] [saw a large lot of Finbacks
and considerable feed in the water] [latter
part] [very light winds] |
Saturday Aug 13th
Comes in with light winds from the NNW
and pleasant saw some Finbacks and
plenty of birds hauled aback in the
afternoon and caught 309 codfish
latter part foggy Lat 58.20 Long 166.15 | Saturday [Aug 13th]
[Comes in] with [light winds from the NNW
and pleasant] saw some Finbacks and
plenty of birds hauled aback in the
afternoon and caught 309 codfish
[latter part] [foggy] [Lat 58.20 Long 166.15] |
Note:
The ship appears to be using Civil time:
July 31st 1892 Comes in [...] at daylight; in the afternoon [...]
August 13th 1892 August 13th 1892 Comes in [...] the afternoon [...] latter part [...]
Start worksheet (top section)
If you discover any metadata in the logbook please enter it on this page. Metadata means 'data about data', barometer readings or temperature readings. See under 'Weather' at rows 32 and 33. For example, if you see that the temperature is in Celsius or Centigrade, that fact should be transcribed as metadata.
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Start worksheet
Primary worksheet
Weather worksheet
Remarks worksheet
Here's a link back to the list of Stamboul 1892 logbook sections for transcribing
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