Yantic (1876): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[Randi]

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NARA URL	JPG Link	General area(s)
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148886187	January February March (1-4)	Japan China
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148886399	March (5-31) April May June July August September (1-21)	China Hong Kong Japan
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148886614	September (22-30) October November December	Japan to Indonesia

Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Yantic 1873-1877

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[joke_slayer]

Reserving this year

[Michael]

[joke_slayer]

Interestingly I found this plan of the ship

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0009.JPG

[Randi]

[Michael]

[joke_slayer]

Made it to the middle of June, spent a lot of time with the Kearsarge and the Ashuelot in Japan and China.

Currently making our way from Nagasaki to Yokohama and having a fair bit of trouble with these unfamiliar place names.

[Michael]

The OW Tools post is very helpful. It lists the tools on the tools website. You will find the Find Place tool very useful.

[joke_slayer]

The log keeper has a bad habit entering cloud form

At 5am the entry is

Cum Nim

then its

"

all the way down to 9am when the entry is

Cir "

In instances like this I have been assuming that the entry for 9am should be

Cir Cum Nim

Hopefully that's ok, if not I'll keep an eye out for it


https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0183.JPG

[Michael]

That's the way to do it. Mind you, it's always difficult to tell just what these guys were thinking.

When I was on a three month course to be a weather observer in 1971, we were taught how to print numbers and letters so that they were always legible, and so that they were always easily distinguishable from all the other letters and numbers. If an entry was incorrect, it had to be crossed out with a single line and the correct entry had to be entered above it. If there was no room, the entire page had to be re-written and both the original and corrected pages had to be saved. Needless to say, we would never use dittoes! And, if you could not make your numbers and letters in the approved way, you would not graduate from the course. It is my profound regret that the methods I was taught were not instituted 100 years earlier.