You can find more ships in this listing: Find your ship, & the full list of ships logbooks for OWW Your help will be very much appreciated. If you need help in choosing a journey please do leave message here or contact AvastMH.
Once all ice sections of the log list have been completed we will return to the non-ice sections.
Here you will find an example transcription of details
This is also a place to ask questions and request help with oddities in the log
You can bring the ship to life by sharing interesting finds from the log pages and other information about the ship
General help with marking and transcribing whaling logs
Weather and ice records from the whaling ships of the USA which contains the following 'must read' topics...
- START HERE. General outline, the project and how to help
- Transcribing: capturing the log details, and information resources
- Transcribing: managing your recording workbook
Treasure trove of information in the Library
Over the years this forum has accumulated a broad spectrum of detailed information which is kept in the Library
Please do take time to visit the Library because it will afford you a great deal of help. However, do feel welcome to ask questions at any time.
Help with images
- If you want to query some text please supply the page reference (the reference changes as you view the middle of a page), and an image of the text if you wish. Help for manipulating/posting images can be found in Guide to posting links and images. If you have any problems with imaging this is the board to post that question.
- Accessing pale images. The example page used below, opened through the 'Irfan' program, 'color correction' and adjust the brightness, saturation, and gamma correction. You may have your own program for adjusting brightness and contrast. Here are the before and after images using Irfan Click to see them at full size.
Names of the crew
Names of the crew and notes of other ships mentioned or visited can also be recorded. Lucretia 1883-1884, crew and ships met
To find the shipyard pages for other whalers
Link: Find your ship, & the full list of ships logbooks for OWW
Select 'view single page':
When the log book image opens you will see two pages. It is easier to read the details accessing one page at a time. Use the icons at the bottom of the screen:
You can walk through Lucretia's log pages in chronological order. All you have to do is increment the number at the end of the link, for example: page/2, page/3, page/4 etc.
Here is a log page that has been transcribed to help you to be familiar with the writing.
July 19th to July 25th 1884
Saturday July 19th
all this day thick fog with lite
airs and calms from diferent quarters
Bark working to SE
So ends
Sunday July 20th
all this day thick fog and rain from
NE to NNW stood in to the land
and came to anchor under Point Hope
ice come down took the anchor and come
to again thirty sail in sight
So ends
Monday July 21st
all this day thick and rainy
from SE Bark at anchor under
Point Hope
So ends
Tuesday July 22nd
all this day thick fog from NE
Bark at anchor under Point Hope
So ends
Wednesday July 23rd
first part fine weather from N
took the anchor and stood to Wward
middle part the same latter part
foggy
So ends
Thursday July 24th
all this day fresh breese with
fog from N Bark by the wind
on diferent tacks working threw
the ice to cape Leisborn
So ends
Friday July 25th
all this day fresh breese from the SE
got steam worked in threw the
ice to the coal mine sent the
boats in for coal
So ends
Here is a transcription of the above log page. Click on the worksheet images below to see them at full size.
Start worksheet
If you discover any metadata in the logbook please enter it on this page. Metadata means 'data about data'. See under 'Weather' at rows 32 and 33. For example, if you see that the temperature is in Celsius or Centigrade, that fact should be transcribed as metadata.
Click on the worksheet images below to see them at full size.
Primary worksheet
Weather worksheet
Remarks worksheet
Note
Never interpret words, and never correct spellings. If you are at all unsure please do post a question here, or in the 'Hand writing help, and spelling' topic, to resolve the correct transcription.
For example, the log keeper sometimes uses the word 'bids', or 'bides' immediately before noting the wind direction. It appears to be interchangeable with 'from'.
Here are examples showing 'bids' and 'from' in use:
Wednesday 21st May and Thursday 22nd May 1884
