Log pages for transcribing - apply here!

[ggordon]

Welcome to the log book of the John Carver 6 May 1884 - 11 Nov 1885.

If you would like to work on a section of the log please

• leave a note in the next available reply section of this board below
• remember to say which section you would like to work on
• a link to the workbook, for your transcriptions, will be provided to you in this board
• let us know if you would rather work in Excel, LibreCalc, or Google Sheets

Each section of the log must be transcribed by three different transcribers

Where to start once I have my log section and workbook?
Please ensure that you read these information pages before transcribing
1) Transcribing: capturing the log details, and information resources
2) Transcribing: managing your recording workbook

Dates are in the format YYYYMMDD. Links to log book pages are shown in blue. Completed sections are shown in bold.

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Date: 27th July 2020. [Note from AvastMH] The logbook image from the National Archives can be a stubborn upload. Most often you can access the image by trying to reload the url link three times. The image reel number for this lobgook is ODHS 979. Please be aware that there is a 'twin logbook' covering the same dates and journey with the reel number ODHS 93 and which we are not transcribing.

Journey section/Users (3)	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A*: marmaduke (Strm A); Plutarch (Strm B); (Available: Strm C)	18840506	18840827	North Atlantic Ocean	About half way between Newfoundland/Labrador, and Galicia in Spain
B*: marmaduke (Strm A); (Available: Strm B, Strm C)	18840828	18841220	Bobbing around in the South Atlantic	Christmastide - off Cape Horn!
C*: marmaduke (Strm A); (Available: Strm B, Strm C)	18841221	18850206	Finally in the Pacific	Heading to the Sandwich Islands
D: BaroquePearl (Strm A); marmaduke (Strm B); arboggs (Strm C)	18850207	18850518	February 22nd - crossing the line	Heading North & logging ice reports
E: BaroquePearl (Strm A); marmaduke (Strm B); arboggs (Strm C)	18850519	18850809	Working the western seas	In the Anadir (Anadyr) Sea
F: BaroquePearl (Strm A); marmaduke (Strm B); arboggs (Strm C)	18850810	18851111	Whaling and ice	'So ends a very pleasant voyage in the old "John Carver"'

*Sections A, B, & C will be the last to be transcribed because there are no ice reports.

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Thank you for your help

[ggordon]

Reserved

[ggordon]

Hi - I am interested in transcribing section D or F, whichever you prefer to have done first. I am a Mac Excel user. Tks!

[ggordon]

Have completed and uploaded Sect D, streams A, B, and C (all were in the first spreadsheet, dates: 02/07/1885-05/18/1885).

Ready to start Sect E.

Thank you!

[ggordon]

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[ggordon]

Have completed and uploaded Sect D, streams A, B, and C (all were in the first spreadsheet, dates: 02/07/1885-05/18/1885).
Ready to start Sect E.
Thank you!

No - thank you !
I just sent you a PM with the links to E and F (say 'no' to Section F if you get bored with the John Caver )

[ggordon]

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Just so!

[ggordon]

I'm interested in the John Carver Section A. Microsoft excel user.

[ggordon]

Hello Plutarch and welcome to OWWhaling! Then Stream B of Section A shall be yours.

I'll send a link to the file to you via a personal message (PM) to you now with the link.
Make sure that you read through the Shipyard information about her:

Shipyard page. Example transcription, general questions and answers
http://www.oldweatherforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=327#p327

And please do ask any questions about any of the logbook entries and anything about how to transcribe them either here or in a pm. I'm also very happy to check any amount of transcription that you might want to ask about.

[ggordon]

Hello Plutarch! I dropped you a note to your personal message system with a solution to your access problem