Haida (1945) — Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Haida (1945) — Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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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.

This year was spent on Pacific Ocean station Able (vicinity of 49N, 148W) and in Washington, so less place names than most logs!



See Haida — General for some general background and discussion.
See Haida — 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: Haida

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I'll make a start on this year, reserving Jan-March
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:) :) :)
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It looks like it got a bit windy late at night

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 2-0026.JPG
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Force 12 is nothing to sneeze at! :shock: When I get finish processing the data for a voyage, I send any reports of Force 10 or above to Kevin. They use it to check on the climate models.
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I've reserved until June

Not the most exciting events, mainly drills and sending up balloons, but lots of very complete weather reports, and plenty of days where the winds hit force 10+ (only 2 days where they recorded force 12 though, and that was just before and after midnight on back to back days)

Postings like this must have been pretty rough for the crew, out at sea for extended periods of time with consistently rough weather. Seeing plenty of entries of guys getting disciplined.
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:) :) :)

You can see from this voyage from 1943 how she spent her time, once she was pulled away from the Aleutians and sent to Weather Station Able/Papa. (At some point in the 1940s they named the Atlantic Weather stations with A and ones in the Pacific with P.

From the article below, you can see that we are pushing the data back from 1949 to 1943! Yay, us!!!
Ocean Weather Station Papa (OWSP, located at 50°N, 145°W) is an important site for continued monitoring of ocean climate, as it has one of the oldest oceanic time series data records. Weather ship observations at the site exist from December 19, 1949, to June 20, 1981. Originally occupied by a U.S. Weather Ship operated through the Coast Guard by the U.S. Weather Bureau, Canada assumed full responsibility for the site in December 1950. Shortly thereafter, two ships (St. Catharines and the Stonetown) took alternating 6-week shifts on station to ensure an uninterrupted time series. In 1967, larger vessels designed for meteorological and oceanographic observations (the CCGS Vancouver and CCGS Quadra, and later, the Parizeau in 1974) replaced the original vessels.

The 32-year time series collected at OWSP holds incredible value for its duration and consistency of on-site measurements. Raw OWSP data can be found alongside other weather ship observations in the NCAR Research Data archives data, Ocean Station Vessel Observations. Quality controlled OWSP data are accessible through the University of Washington’s ResearchWorks Archive at the following link: Ocean Weather Station Papa, 1951-1981.

With the advent of the satellite era, the Weather Ship programs were discontinued, and after August 1981, shipboard measurements along Line P conducted by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) were limited to three to six times per year, and can be found on the Line-P Program website.
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Reserved until September

Saw one more report of F12 wind
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Reserved the rest of the year.

Its interesting how in the first part of the year they were always maintaining 4 knots when they were at ~49N 149W, while in the second half they are spending a lot of time drifting with the engines stopped. The surprising part is how the started drifting at the end of July, I wouldn't have expected that change to happen before the end of the war.
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Isn't it interesting how just entering data from a 75 year old log book raises questions about the war, military strategy etc etc. :)
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This entry from November caught my eye

https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 1-0020.JPG
1303 Effective this date Chief Machinist Robert Kirkley USCG accepted appointment to Chief Machinist for temporary service with rank as such from 1 October, 1945 appointed by the President on 1 October 1945, Authority ~ 111-45 and OCGO, 17ND distpatch 101853 (November, 1945)
Googled the name and found this:

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/general/topics/uscg/1/

He certainly seems to have had a fascinating life
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Great find!
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Finished the rest of the year, and so ends my time on the Haida

The pages transcribed were spent entirely at sea in the vicity of 49N 149W or travelling between that point and Seattle.

Not much else of note. The USS Pocatello (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pocatello_(PF-9)) was mentioned a couple of times towards the start of the year as the ship she was taking turns patrolling that area with, which could be useful if we want more data from that area.
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Great work. I'll work on calculating the positions as soon as I finish working on Haida 1941.
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Spending January on duty at Weather Station Papa. :D :D

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I see wings going to the top and bottom, a beak to the left, and two tail feathers to the left.

Can anyone get a bit more creative?
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The voyage for 1945 has been done. Many thanks to Joke Slayer who had many course changes and EVERY HOUR had weather data! No ports of call as Haida made ten trips out to Weather Station Papa. There were cases of Force 12 winds, too, just to really test one's sea legs. You can see the voyage plot here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were a few mentions of people, which are listed here.
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Joke_Slayer & Michael
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