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NARA URL JPG Link General area(s)
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148883618 February (11-28)
March
April
May
June
July (1-29)
Virginia
Florida
Mexico
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148883806 July (30-31)
August
September
October
November
December
Mexico
Florida


Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Yantic 1864-1867




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.



See Yantic: general for some general background and discussion.
See Yantic: 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 make a start here
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:D :D :D
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Just a bit of a warning, I am a bit confused by the logkeepers understanding of time, 0800-1200 here was all over the place

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0045.JPG

I suspect they are changing timezones multiple times, but I can't see them mentioning that anywhere
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I found that when I did Yantic. I suspect that they are just compiling information from another place and adding things by topic, rather than by time. I.e. Information about sails, then information about course changes then information about people or whatever. Don't fret about it. I'll sort it all out in the end.
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In June, and so far this year they travelled from Norfolk to Tampico via Key West, and stayed anchored there months on end.

There has been some excitement with occasional reports of shooting on shore, and on one occasion even shots flying past the ship, this is presumably all part of the French intervention in Mexico that ended in 1867.

Finally on the 10th of June the Mexican government appears to have arrived in town so hopefully for the crew things should quieten down.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0137.JPG
The troops of General Pavon of Juarez Government crossed the river from Puabla Viejo and took possession of the City of Tampico.
Those of Gomez party evacuating according to a recent contract in favor of Pavon
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find much information about what was going on in Tampico over these months.


Also, on top of the weather grid they are providing lots of detailed weather observations in the events page, hopefully they can be of use.
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:) :) :)
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0176.JPG
Lieut Commander James G. Maxwell died at 9 am of Pritonitis
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0177.JPG
the remains of the Late Lieut Commander James G. Maxwell was taken on shore for internment accompanied by the OFficers of the vessel with thirty (30) Petty officers and men.
On the Dock they were met by General Pavone with a Military Guard and the Citizens who escorted the body to the Grave.
Seven (7) minute Guns og 10 lbs charges each were fired as the funeral party left the ship
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RIP Lieut Commander James G. Maxwell
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Year completed. I'm not sure how much I trust the log keeper on this one.

They spent a lot of time sending people to measure the height of the water over the Tampico Bar, and the draft of the ship, so I suspect they spent more time there than they were originally planning to.
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Thanks, Joke Slayer. :) :) :)

Yours goes into the queue behind Sleepy Owl's Ashuelot and Stuart's Yantic. That's what happens when I go away for 26 days... :roll: I'll do my OMaha after yours Yantic, unless someone else buts in! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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The voyage for 1867 has been completed with many thanks to Joke Slayer. The log keeper's writing was very hard to read, and his work habits were very sloppy: he frequently neglected to writ in all the data, and it was quite often wrong. If I had a Tardis, I would send Joke Slayer back in time to instruct the crew on how to record data properly.

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 were mentions of some of the people, which you can see here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather ElementRecords
DirT
7749
Kts
7724
Baro
7750
Attd
7746
Dry
7718
Wet
7268
Water
7248
Weather
7741
Clouds
7742
Clear
7730
Total
76416

Yantic travelled a total of 4928 miles.
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Super job
Joke_Slayer and Michael !
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