Bear (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Bear (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Michael has done Ice Hunting for this year, but at that time the science team only wanted 8am, noon, and 8pm locations.
The science team now wants the hourly distances and courses.
Since this year was not transcribed during OW3, the science team would also like to have all the weather.

On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances, courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
(The weather data requested here is the same as it was during OW3.)
One weather transcription (Stream 1 in the Tracker and highlighted in orange) is sufficient.

On the events page please enter: date, location information and sailing information.
Other events are optional. Since Michael has already done the ice, mentions of ice are optional.

One person can do both weather and events, but the system allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Ice hunting and/or Stream 3).

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.
(If one transcriber does events and weather and they are in the same image, the date is only entered once)



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Re: Bear (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Hanibal94 wrote:Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:45 pm June completed - FINALLY some ice! And a lot of it too - when they first tried to go to Nome, the ice was so thick they couldn't get through!
They had to moor to an ice floe and send dog sled teams over the ice instead! That was very interesting to read.

On to July.

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun Apr 14, 2019 2:37 pm September 8th:
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13:30 stopped and sent officer to board the "King and Winge". Learned that it had rescued the survivors of the "Karluk" on Wrangell Island about 6:00 am of the 7th instant. 14:30 the following named persons of the Canadian Arctic Expedition came on board: [...] 14:50 ahead, full speed, course NxW 1/4 W for Herald Island, where four members of the Expedition were supposed to have landed.
EDIT: On Sep 9th, they found Herald Island, but couldn't get closer than 8 miles due to heavy ice. They searched with binoculars and telescopes, but couldn't see anybody.
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Randi wrote:Sun Apr 14, 2019 4:42 pm Last voyage of the Karluk
The fate of First Officer Alexander Anderson's party remained unknown until 1924, when an American vessel landed at Herald Island and found human remains, with supplies of food, clothing, ammunition and equipment. From these artefacts it was established that this was Anderson's party. No cause of death was established, though the plentiful unconsumed supplies ruled out starvation. One theory was that the tent had blown away in a storm and that the party had frozen to death. Another was carbon monoxide poisoning within the tent.

King & Winge (fishing schooner)
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By United States Coast and Geodetic Survey - USC&GS Season's Report Colbert 1916-11,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7019215

Hanibal94 wrote:Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:39 pm On September 12th, they fired a national salute to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner".

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But according to Internet sources, it was actually written on September 14th, 1814. ???
(I also found out that while it didn't officially become the USA national anthem until 1931, it was already adopted by the US Navy in 1899, which probably explains the salute)

Hanibal94 wrote:Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:35 pm On September 20th, there was some stuff about assisting other ships:
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First, they received word that the Corwin was aground, and decided to go help her (09:10).
Then another message said the Corwin could handle it on her own (Noon to 4 PM watch).
But at 17:08, another message said the Bear was needed after all.
And at 21:50, yet another message said the USRC Tahoma was on the rocks and also needed help!

I wonder what the Bear will do now.

EDIT: I didn't notice the Events went on for another page - turns out they went for the Corwin, as Tahoma was 960 miles away:
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Then they helped lighten her freight and loaned her some things:
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https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0324.JPG

And on September 23rd at 19:15, the Corwin was able to get free:
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I will keep an eye out for any further mentions of her or the Tahoma.

Michael wrote:Sun Apr 28, 2019 2:03 pm That's really cool, Hanibal.

I remember reading about other ships coming to the rescue of grounded vessels. Poor and incomplete charts and not yet having radar or sonar must have made navigating in shallow waters quite dangerous, especially in bad weather.

One ship, I think it was the Concord, kept trying to pull a cable laying ship, perhaps, off some rocks. They kept breaking hawsers of increasing size and, after a day or two, another ship came along to assist. The Concord had a line to the grounded ship and the other vessel had a line on the Concord and they still couldn't succeed. Eventually the Concord left and somehow the second vessel got the grounded ship free.

I think I read that there are at a least a hundred wrecked ships of various sizes littering just the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu May 02, 2019 7:54 pm I found out what happened to the Tahoma - her crew were saved by the Patterson and taken to Unalaska.
This is mentioned e.g. on October 4th and 5th:
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https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 5_0343.JPG

Hanibal94 wrote:Thu May 02, 2019 8:10 pm Some more info: Just before leaving Unalaska, the Bear took on a lot of Tahoma crew - some joined her permanently, but most were being transported to Seattle or San Francisco, a few of them were assigned to the Unalga or McCullock.

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Re: Bear (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

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Michael wrote:Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:41 pm Off Mys Nunyamo, 27 June, 1914
1:40 PM Entered ice field; working at various speeds toward Cape Nunyagmo, St. Lawrence Bay.
3:05, stopped moored to ice and spoke a native boat. Sent native boat ashore around ice with note to Lord Wm Percy.

5:30 Lord Wm. Percy came aboard in native boat and reported all well in his camp ashore.
7:10 Lord Percy left vessel
I wondered who this Lord Wm Percy was. I found a long obituary, with this note as part of it...
A short but charming account of ? Steller?s Eider in the north-east corner of Siberia ?
which he contributed to the seventh volume of my ? The Birds of the British Isles ? (1958)
indicates that he was a gifted writer when he could be induced to put pen to paper. He had
spent the summer of 1914 in the company of ? thousands ? and wrote to me that despite
a frustrated journey-by one of the worst ice-years on record--? Stellers left an indelible
impression as the most fascinating of all ducks in the Old World or the New.?

Randi wrote:Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:43 pm I remember him coming on board back in May ;)
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?t ... #msg139740

Michael wrote:Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:27 am The voyage for 1914 is plotted here.

An OW Hero Badge for Hanibal for his careful and detailed transcribing!!!
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