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Not a typical log page, but a dramatic one — Wind force 9-11



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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/169784343 August (15-31)
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Charleston
Boston
Portugal
France


Muster Rolls of U.S.S. Shenandoah 1867-1870




On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.



See Shenandoah: general for some general background and discussion.
See Shenandoah: examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

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22 August
Charleston Navy Yard, Boston.

Midnight to 4 AM
Brilliant Aurora Borealis
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5 September 1870
Noon position: 42o 40'No 68 6'W

Midnight to 4 AM
Brilliant display of Northern Lights all through the watch.
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19 September, 1870
Noon : Lat 37° 13' 00"N, Long 42° 29' 00"W

At 11 PM a brilliant Meteor fell in the direction ENE.
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24 September 1870
Noon : Lat 36° 41' 00"N, Long 30° 59' 00"W

8 PM to Midnight
Very brilliant Northern Lights beautifully tinged with red.
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25 September 1870
Noon : Lat 37° 37' 00"N, Long 30° 59' 00"W

Midnight to 4 AM
Aurora Borealis very brilliant to Nd.
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27 September
Noon : Lat 35° 25' 00"N, Long 28° 03' 00"W
At 6:05 PM called "All hands reef topsails", and took one reef in topsails. In laying down from aloft, Hendrick Dytolhof (OS) attempted to come down futtock rigging when he fell from aloft, striking first the iron upper sheer rattling (bending it) then the after guy of the 2nd Launch, leaving it stained with blood: thence into the water. The life buoy was let go, life boat lowered, topsails hoisted, and ship hove to. Then wore ship. After getting around, hove to with main Topsail to the mast. When the boat was lowered, the life buoy was seen and hoisted, but as the man could not be seen the boat went in search intending to pick up life buoy in coming back. After looking in vain for 45 minutes, the boat returned to the ship without the life buoy, as the Port fire had failed and darkness was coming on it was impossible to find it. At 7, wore ship again. After getting around, hove to with main topsail to the mast, and remained so during rest of watch. Men were kept in the tops to look out for the man and life buoy. When life boat returned, hoisted and secured it for sea. At 7:20 beat to quarters to find how was missing. Turned over hammock and bag of lost man to Mast At Arms immediately after quarters.
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8 PM to Midnight
First hour hove to with main Topsail to the mast. Keeping a bright look out for the life buoy. At 9 o'clock, there being no indication of anything in the water resembling man or life buoy and deeming it useless to continue the search longer, by direction of Commanding Officer, filled away and set fore and Main Top-gallant sails, Foresail and lee clew of mainsail.
RIP Ordinary Seaman Hendrick Dytolhof
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24 October 1870
Lisbon, Portugal
Brilliant display of Aurora Borealis coloring the whole northern heavens with a brilliant red.
This was under the 4PM to 8 PM heading, but there was no heading for 8 PM to Midnight.
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A few days ago, the surgeon was placed under suspension for being drunk. Then, today,
Surgeon L. M. Lyon, being under suspension and appearing on poop, was obligated to remind him of the irregularity.
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You can see that a surgeon is a person of importance :roll:
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December 11
Le Havre, France
The following is entered by order of the Commanding Office C. H. Wells, Commander: Chas H. Dailey (B. M.) came to the mast with three other petty officers and stated through the Executive Officer Lt. Comdr Mitchell that they desired to see me with regard to having liberty. C. H. Dailey (B. M.) acted as spokesman and expressed himself to me as follows in language to this effect: that they had come as the Representatives of the Ship's Company to state their grievances: that they were not allowed to go on liberty, and demanded that justice given them by the laws of the United States, wanting liberty and money. His whole manner and language being disrespectful and insubordiate to me as Commanding Officer, I immediately desrated him and placed him in double irons.
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While this log keeper doesn't record when people get liberty, he does record, nearly every day, a few people being AWOL and then returning drunk. However, since the 11th, no-one has been drunk or AWOL. On the 18th, he names several men who will be on liberty from noon until 9 A.M. tomorrow. I suspect that the Commanding Officer cancelled all liberty on the 11th for one week, which was the reason for the crew complaining.
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Shades of the Concord :roll:
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They were having only 3 or 4 people per day being drunk and/or AWOL. If I remember, Concord had lots more than that. :D
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22 December 1870
Le Havre, France
At 12:10 a partial eclipse of the sun took place, continuing for 1 hr. 30 min.
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26 December
Le Havre, France
Lieut A. C. Kelton (U.S.M.C.) was put under suspension for using disrespectful language to the Commanding Officer making use of words to this effect, "that he did not purpose visiting every whorehouse in town today for deserters."
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The voyage for 1870 has been completed. 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. There were a few mentions of people here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather ElementRecords
DirT
3,302
Kts
3,261
Baro
3,205
Attd
3,192
Dry
3,195
Wet
3,133
Water
3,078
Weather
3,259
Clouds
3,266
Clear
3,108
Total
31,999

Shenandoah travelled a total of 5,824 miles.
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