Shenandoah (1885): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[ggordon]

April 28 at Panama, U.S.C.

4AM to 8AM

7:00 Columbian gun boat came in with large two mast hulk in tow accompanied by a small steamer with small schooner in tow all loaded with troops - Sent a boat from the "Iroquois" to board her - P.S.N. Steamer came in from Sd
7:30 sent a boat ashore with an officer to the consul
"Iroquois" batallion returned aboard that ship

8AM to Meridian

8:45 "prepare to land" signal was hoisted on shore - Signalled the Iroquois: "get ready to land at once", and mad preparations to land the 3d Company from this vessel.
9:00 the following signals were made from shore: "Capt. Norton. Admiral requests you to ascertain the situation of the National forces and report it to him". Sent an officer with telegraphic message to Admiral Jonett - The Chilian Cruiser "Esmeralda" came in and anchored at 11:50 - Sent a boarding officer to her with usual offer of civilities

4PM to 8PM

The Columbian steamer "Bogaca" steamed around the harbor dipping her colors to all the man-of-war in port

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[Michael]

It's a busy time!

[ggordon]

April is complete.

April 30 at Panama, U.S.C.

4AM to 8AM

Our armed force of Marines and sailors returned to the ship, except the following named men who have deserted; Wm Cameron (o.s.), O.H. Hayes (o.s.), J.A. Tomson (C.H.), T. Johansen (C.H.), Wm Buhs (Lds.), R. Day (Q.G.), J.T. Cleary (Lds), A. Hamel (lds), H. Lewis (o.s.), W.G. Blair (S.a. 2c), C.H. Moulton (Lds), - The following named articles are reported as missing and are hereby logged as "expended in service"; In Ordnance Dept. 5 canteens, 4 rifles, 9 revolvers, 24 friction u. primers, 29 friction quill primers, 1 haversack strap, 6 pairs of coat straps, 5 blanket bags, 6 woven cartridge belts, 3 cutlasses, 13 cutlass frogs, 6 revolver frogs, 25 waist belts, 16 revolver cartridge boxes - In Navigation Dept. 2 hand lanterns and globes - Also in Ordnance Department 3 rifle Cartridge boxes
By order of Com’dg Officer disrated U. Riley (Chf. Gn mate) to Seaman os for procuring a key to unlock a prisoner’s (Masterson) hand irons, and rated John Lowry (Qr. Gn.) to Chief Gunners Mate.

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[Randi]

Busy life you lead, Gordon!

[ggordon]

A nice change after four previous boring years aboard the Shenandoah. However, it's unfortunate that it's due to an armed conflict. It was much better reading about the rescue efforts and assistance to locals provided by the Revenue Cutters in Alaska.

[Michael]

I know the feeling. I have a sense of displacement. I'm off Jaffa, modern Israel. The map I'm using shows it as the Coast of Syria. We fired a salute with the Turkish flag at the fore. Where am I: Israel, Ottoman Syria or Turkey?
(Ottoman Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire in those days.)

[ggordon]

May 4 at Panama, U.S.C.

Temperatures in the 80s and humid, with passing showers.

8AM to Meridian

Made preparations for great gun target practice but did not have it, the surgeon objecting on account of the great heat.

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[Michael]

Sensible man.

[ggordon]

The end of the logbook at May 15 has been completed. Starting a new logbook on May 16.

[ggordon]

May is complete. Heading SE along the coast of Peru.

[Randi]

Good work!

[Michael]

[ggordon]

June 26

The following text was added as a transcriber note and added to the comments in the tracker.

The clouds column from 7AM to 8AM and the clear sky column from 7AM to 10AM are obscured in the image by an insert. Entries for these times were transcribed with the same values as the adjacent values. The weather appeared to be quite stable at that time. So it is unlikely that these missing values would deviate from the adjacent values.

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[Michael]

That looks reasonable. In fact, the weather, being overcast for the entire 12 hours, would make the Prob of Clear Sky zero. And, with no precip reported, the clouds would likely be unchanged.

[pommystuart]

The previous page shows the missing data.

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You will find lots of those pages.

At the end of the month my additional Punishment lists sometimes cover three pages of inserts.

[ggordon]

I didn't bother looking at the previous page because that was the one where they covered the weather side with the insert, but it still does show the missing cloud types and couple more of the missing cloud cover entries. 9 and 10 AM cloud cover are still missing in both images, but for a few days it has been all zeroes until later that afternoon.

This log book has had lots of inserts, but this was the first case where weather data was covered despite the insert being held over on the event side.

I'm just glad I'm not the person who has to create these images. They must be thinking to themselves, "Why am I doing this? Is anyone really going to ever look at these images?" At least we know that the results of our transcribing are being put to good use.

[pommystuart]

HI.
If you did not look back at the previous page you may have found the date increments will put your entries out if your not careful.
I have by default accepted the auto incremented date and had to go back and change it.

[ggordon]

June is complete.

Arrived at Callao, Peru on June 2nd, where the ship remained in port the remainder of the month.

[Michael]

[ggordon]

4th of July celebration at Callao, Peru:

Having transcribed a few years of Shenandoah logs, I only recall seeing one other mention of any sort of celebration.

July 3:

8AM to Meridian

Sent an officer to the various men-of-war in port to inform them of our intention to celebrate tomorrow the 4th of July in the usual manner and request their participation

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July 4:

4AM to 8AM

At sunrise dressed ship in honor of the day - our motions in dressing were followed by the two Chilian men-of war and the French gunboat, and later by several merchant-ships in the harbor.

8AM to Meridian

At noon fired a national salute of 21 guns. The Chilian cruiser "Esmeralda", and French corvette "Bourayne" fired a salute of 21 guns.

Meridian to 4PM

Parties of ladies and gentlemen on board dancing

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