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- Tue May 21, 2024 1:22 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
- Replies: 45
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- Mon May 20, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
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- Views: 268676
Re: Chat
A bit late since Chris is no longer here to post them...
The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
- Mon May 20, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1540
Re: Not exactly Scrabble...
N12 across world LAUGHTER day
(first Sunday in May)
(first Sunday in May)
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
Re: Weather history miscellany
https://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/5-20 1894 - A record late snow of two to eight inches whitened parts of central and eastern Kentucky. Lexington KY received six inches of snow. (The Weather Channel) 1916 - A tornado struck the town of Codell, KS. A tornado struck the town on the same d...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Coast Guard miscellany
- Replies: 146
- Views: 1181
Re: Coast Guard miscellany
https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/ 1882 — The lookout of Station No. 10 (Louisville, Kentucky), 9th District, spotted two men and a skiff being swept toward the dam and falls of the Ohio River. He sounded the alarm and "a boat at once shot out from the station, and reached the me...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Navy miscellany
- Replies: 150
- Views: 1176
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:41 am
- Forum: Geographical help
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12228
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
Re: Weather history miscellany
https://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_May_19 1780: The infamous "dark day" in New England tradition. At noon, it was nearly as dark as night. Chickens went to roost, and many persons were fearful of divine wrath. The "dark day" was caused by forest fires to the...
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Coast Guard miscellany
- Replies: 146
- Views: 1181
Re: Coast Guard miscellany
https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/ 1846 — Secretary of Treasury Walker assigned Revenue Captain John A. Webster to control movements of vessels assigned to Army and to cooperate with the Navy in the War with Mexico. 1896 — Congress authorized the Secretary of Treasury to patrol regatt...
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Navy miscellany
- Replies: 150
- Views: 1176
Re: Navy miscellany
https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/may-19.html 1882 — Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt, onboard USS Swatara, arrives in Korea to negotiate the first commerce treaty between Korea and a Western power. The treaty is signed on May 22, opening Korea to United States trade. https://s3.amazonaws.c...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
Re: Weather history miscellany
NASA Earth Observatory https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/152000/152832/yawajaba_oli2_20240421.jpg April 21, 2024 https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/152000/152832/yawajaba_oli_20240429.jpg April 29, 2024 Montgomery Reef Revealed https://www.geonames.org/2074108/colli...
- Sat May 18, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Coast Guard miscellany
- Replies: 146
- Views: 1181
Re: Coast Guard miscellany
https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
1920 — Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel were granted the same pay, allowances and increases as the Navy.
1920 — Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel were granted the same pay, allowances and increases as the Navy.
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Navy miscellany
- Replies: 150
- Views: 1176
Re: Navy miscellany
https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/may-18.html 1898 — During the Spanish-American War, boat parties from USS St.Louis and USS Wompatuck, under Capt. Caspar F. Goodrich, cut communication cables at Santiago, Cuba. 1902 — Marines and Sailors from the iron-hulled screw steamer, Ranger go as...
- Fri May 17, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: USS Lackawanna
- Topic: Lackawanna (1863): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
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- Views: 1790
Re: Lackawanna (1863): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
I can only hope that their seamanship is better than their log keeping
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: Weather, sea, and ice terminology
- Topic: Weather
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10184
Re: Weather
Interesting comment in this 1855 log:
when the temperature of the water is taken below the surface, the depth in fathoms should be placed above, thus
50
40
denotes that at the depth of 50 fathoms the temperature of the water was 40°
when the temperature of the water is taken below the surface, the depth in fathoms should be placed above, thus
50
40
denotes that at the depth of 50 fathoms the temperature of the water was 40°
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Word game: Last letters link
- Replies: 72
- Views: 45942
Re: Word game: Last letters link
A tea sommelier sounds very
erudite
erudite
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 297
- Views: 2647