Kearsarge (1890): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

[pommystuart]

Any ideas why they were casting at 08-1200? What would make them pick that time?
Whilst it shows what looks like Feet and Inches I guess it is Fathoms and inches.
2' 42 I think is 9' 6 in f&I, so it was getting a bit shallow, how did they know?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 6_0204.JPG

[Randi]

Time in casting loose 1'st Div 3min 22sec, 2'nd Div 2' 42", 3'rd Div 3' 06" ...

I assume that they were casting one of the ship's boats loose

[pommystuart]

Good afternoon Randi.
Never thought of that, could be a good answer.

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[Michael]

Good job, Stuart. I'm just finishing processing McCulloch, 1916, then I have to start processing Sacramento, 1924. Kearsarge, 1890, will be next.

[Michael]

The voyage for 1890 has been done, thanks to the Stuart's sterling work. 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. Two people were mentioned here.

Here are the statistics for the voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	8,753
Kts	8,645
Baro	8,757
Attd	8,757
Dry	8,757
Wet	8,757
Water	1,445
Weather	8,754
Clouds	8,752
Clear	8,686
Total	80,063

Kearsarge travelled a total of 12,629 miles.