NARA logbooks moved

[Caro]

NARA's catalogue of US ships' logs has been reorganised, which means the scan links in your documents may now take you to a blank page.
The scan links will be updated as soon as possible.

[studentforever]

Thanks for the warning. So far Jamestown's links from the logs are working but if I try to access the hi-res versions I have to set up an account at the Archives which I haven't tried yet.

[Maikel]

Try the following to access USS Jamestown's high resolution pages:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/2844/7284473/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-024/581208-noaa/118/jamestown/vol046of067/24-118-jamestown-vol046of067_002.jpg

Dark red = 27 + volume number
Red = 7284427 + volume number
Blue = volume of total volumes (volXXXofYYY)
Green = page number (three digits)

[Randi]

Use this to get the top level link. From there you can get the individual pages.
(which currently appear in reverse chronological order)

12/25/1844 4/13/1846 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284428

4/14/1846 8/16/1846 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284429

7/13/1847 7/29/1848 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284430

7/30/1848 8/15/1849 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284431

8/16/1849 5/11/1850 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284432

4/15/1851 10/16/1852 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284433

10/17/1852 5/11/1854 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284434

2/22/1855 12/31/1855 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284435

1/1/1856 1/25/1857 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284436

1/25/1857 6/6/1857 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284437

12/16/1857 12/31/1858 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284438

1/1/1859 12/22/1859 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284439

12/23/1859 2/14/1860 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284440

6/5/1861 6/23/1862 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284441

6/24/1862 7/9/1863 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284442

7/10/1863 7/27/1864 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284443

7/28/1864 9/17/1865 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284444

9/3/1866 12/31/1866 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284445

9/3/1866 12/31/1866 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284446

1/1/1867 6/30/1867 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284447

1/1/1867 6/30/1867 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284448

7/1/1867 12/31/1867 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284449

7/1/1867 12/31/1867 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284450

1/1/1868 6/30/1868 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284451

1/1/1868 6/30/1868 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284452

7/1/1868 8/13/1868 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284453

7/1/1868 8/13/1868 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284454

1/25/1869 6/30/1869 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284455

1/25/1869 6/30/1869 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284456

7/1/1869 12/31/1869 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284457

7/1/1869 12/31/1869 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284458

1/1/1870 6/30/1870 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284459

1/1/1870 6/30/1870 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284460

7/1/1870 12/31/1870 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284461

7/1/1870 12/31/1870 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284462

1/1/1871 6/16/1871 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284463

1/1/1871 6/16/1871 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284464

3/16/1876 9/30/1876 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284465

10/1/1876 4/17/1877 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284466

6/1/1877 3/9/1878 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284467

5/8/1879 11/12/1879 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284468

11/13/1879 5/30/1880 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284469

5/31/1880 12/12/1880 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284470

12/13/1880 6/16/1881 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284471

6/17/1881 9/21/1881 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284472

2/14/1882 8/20/1882 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284473

2/14/1882 8/20/1882 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284474

8/21/1882 2/12/1883 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284475

9/1/1882 9/14/1882 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284476

2/13/1883 8/18/1883 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284477

8/19/1883 2/17/1884 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284478

2/18/1884 8/24/1884 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284479

8/25/1884 2/25/1885 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284480

2/26/1885 9/3/1885 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284481

9/4/1885 3/12/1886 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284482

3/13/1886 9/15/1886 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284483

9/16/1886 3/24/1887 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284484

3/25/1887 9/24/1887 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284485

9/25/1887 3/24/1888 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284486

3/25/1888 8/31/1888 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284487

4/13/1889 10/12/1889 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284488

10/13/1889 4/13/1890 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284489

4/13/1890 10/12/1890 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284490

10/13/1890 4/22/1891 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284491

4/23/1891 10/25/1891 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284492

10/26/1891 4/28/1892 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284493

4/29/1892 9/6/1892 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284494

[Caro]

Some of the links to log scans on Naval-History.Net are currently not working.
The logs affected are: USS Burton Island, USCGC Chelan, USCGC Eastwind, USCGC Haida, USCGC Northland, USCGC Shoshone, USCGC Storis, and USS Yorktown.
An update will be posted when these are fixed.

[Maikel]

It looks like NARA have moved their storage away from Amazon.
If you open a page, you'll be met with an error message.

Code: Select all

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  <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
  <Message>Access Denied</Message>
  <RequestId>7BGS4TDAVHZP3MQ4</RequestId>
  <HostId>AKOo9fQrEeGa2Ny0Lw3cUp7cq6naaXZn15sRXukfymvTMP2htLZDvZLlfG2uBlHVsypQYV+O3Cs=</HostId>
</Error>

Replacing 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... rage/live/' with 'https://catalog.archives.gov/medialive/' seems to do the trick, though.

For example:

The old link:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9217/6921758/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-024/581208-noaa/118/yorktown/vol039of040/24-118-yorktown-vol039of040_107.jpg


The new link:

https://catalog.archives.gov/medialive/58/9217/6921758/content/arcmedia/dc-metro/rg-024/581208-noaa/118/yorktown/vol039of040/24-118-yorktown-vol039of040_107.jpg

[Michael]

I came across, or was given by someone like Kevin Wood, a set of Excel spreadsheets that list all the logbooks, whether or not they're scanned, the URLs for those scans, Wikipedia links, links to crew members, etc etc. There are data for 51,591 log books, 8,484 of which have been scanned.

You can get those spreadsheets here. Some of those Excel files are really big, so I saved them as tab separated text files, TSV. I also cut down on the number of fields. This is an example of how the TSV files look:

Ship Name	Start Date	End Date	Ocean Area	NARA URL	History Link	Muster Rolls URL
ABSECON	1949-05-01	1949-10-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Absecon_(AVP-23)
ABSECON	1949-11-01	1950-04-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Absecon_(AVP-23)
ABSECON	1950-05-01	1950-09-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Absecon_(AVP-23)
ABSECON	1950-10-01	1950-12-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Absecon_(AVP-23)
ACACIA	1926-07-01	1926-07-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WAGL-200)
ACACIA	1941-01-01	1941-12-01	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WAGL-200)
ACACIA	1948-01-01	1949-02-01			https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WLB-406)
ACACIA	1949-03-01	1950-04-01			https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WLB-406)
ACACIA	1950-05-01	1950-12-01			https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Acacia_(WLB-406)
ACADEMY	1914-12-21	1915-04-30			no history link
ACADEMY	1915-06-30	1915-09-17			no history link
ACADEMY	1915-09-15	1916-01-11			no history link
ACADEMY	1916-05-22	1916-09-30			no history link
ACADEMY	1917-02-18	1917-06-12			no history link
ACADEMY	1917-06-13	1917-10-16			no history link
ACADEMY	1917-02-21	1918-07-01			no history link
ACADEMY	1922-09-02	1922-12-02			no history link
ACTIVE	1819-01-01	1819-12-31			https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRC_Active_(1816)
ACTIVE	1867-01-01	1871-12-31	NA		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRC_Active_(1867)

Some logs have been scanned since the Excel spreadsheets were created, so the list isn't totally up-to-date. These are the data for USS Cyane from the 1800s...

Ship Name	Start Date	End Date	Ocean Area	NARA URL	History Link	Muster Rolls URL
CYANE	1859-09-04	1860-08-31	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/199997633	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417214
CYANE	1860-09-01	1861-08-13	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/183316474	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)
CYANE	1863-09-28	1864-10-15	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/199997820	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417214
CYANE	1864-10-16	1865-10-22	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417214
CYANE	1865-10-23	1866-03-05	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/183316656	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417214
CYANE	1867-09-04	1868-02-25	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1867-09-04	1868-02-25	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/183316732	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1867-09-04	1868-01-24	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1868-02-26	1868-08-23	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1868-02-26	1868-08-09	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/183316920	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1868-08-10	1869-02-05	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1868-08-22	1869-02-06	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1869-02-07	1869-07-07	NP	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/183317105	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1869-02-07	1869-07-07	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1869-09-13	1870-03-24	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282
CYANE	1869-09-13	1870-03-27	NP		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cyane_(1837)	https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134417282

The oceans are pretty generic... NA, NP, SA, SP, AR, IO, IW where AO is Arctic Ocean, IO is Indian Ocean and IW is Inland Waters.

Some of the Excel files are huge to the point of being almost unusable. I think originally there was just one really huge file, and the data for the various types were just tabs in that spreadsheet. These files are very useful for finding what logs have been scanned, and were to find them. I find the TSV files much easier to use than the Excel files, but others might prefer the other format.

[Maikel]

Yeah, I know, I have the same old spreadsheets.

BTW you might want to check the last table you created, some of the links in the 5th column are messed up.
Michael corrected them.

[Caro]

The scan links on NHN have been amended. Thanks Maikel.