Welcome on board the 'Atlantic' on voyage 18 April 1881 to 30 June 1881
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...
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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.
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Names of the crew
Names of the crew and notes of other ships mentioned or visited can also be recorded.
Atlantic, crew and ships met
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Here is a log page that has been transcribed to help you to be familiar with the writing.
July 1st to July 6th 1881
On Arctic Sea for Polar Whales
Remarks Friday July 1st 1881 Civil Time
Lat by Obs 69 N Long by Chron 170, 30 W
Commeced with fog squalls wind moderate most of the
day clear AM saw Ice to the N of us all hands employed
boiling and stowed down oil Stowed off the main
Hatch lower hold stearing ENE
Saturday July 2nd
Lat by Obs 68,50N Long by Chron 168 W
Fair weather with moderate S wind about half on each tack
finished boiling all employed broke out and stowed down oil
in after hold saw Land
Sunday July 3d
Lat by Obs 68,25N Long by Chron 166,,30 W
Fair weather with moderate ESE wind AM on NE tack stood
in to the N of Point hope. PM run N to Cape Lisburne.
Monday July 4th
Lat Long
Commenced with a fresh gale from S at ten AM
stood in to the North E of Cape Lisburn and came to an
Anchor in seven fathoms of water to get water let out
60 fathoms of Cable about one PM strong gale and whirl
wind off the Land we draged our anchor off an 1/8 of a mile
hove it up and stood of to W set lower topsail we was
anchored one mile from shore we passed ground Ice whare
ther was about 18 fathoms of Water
Tuesday July 5th
Lat by Long by
Cloudy with strong breeses from S AM stood in
to NE of Cape Lisburn about 15 miles at one PM
came to an Anchor 1/2 mile from Land in seven fathoms
of Water and got two rafts of Water about 150 bbls of
Water Coopers setting up new Cask for water latter part
lite southerly wind
Wednesday July 6th
Clear with lite NE wind got a raft of Water bbls all together and
at eleven AM took our Anchor and stood of to NW and West
Here is a transcription of the above log page. Click on the worksheet images below to see them at full size
Start worksheet (top section)
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.
Start worksheet
Primary worksheet
Weather worksheet
Remarks worksheet
Notes
'Civil Time' is noted, enter this on the START Sheet by '
Notes:'.
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