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 Shoshone — General for some general background and discussion.
See Shoshone — 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.

OW web site: Shoshone

Direct links:

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July 4^th, 1934
Seward

1050. Delivered to the Postmaster, Seward, Alaska, 641 sacks of mail.

16 September, 1934
Unalaska

Man fell overboard from northeast end of inner dock. 2243 Members of crew of SHOSHONE rescued man with a line. Man was identified as Bill Helge, a fisherman of Unalaska, Alaska.

October 1, 1934
Near 52N, 154W

Received information that M.S. ALITAK was in a leaking condition in Latitude 51 25N, Longitude 146 00W. This position being
in a general direction of our course, maintained course and speed. Contacted ALITAK by radio and arranged radio
schedule for keeping advised of conditions.

5 October, 1934
45 45N 131 20W

Came up with and spoke the M. S. ALITAK in 45 45 North latitude, 131 20 West longitude. 0830 M. S. ALITAK did not desire a convoy.

The voyage for 1934 has been completed. You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There was person mentioned. The details are here.