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Many of you probably encountered the SS Dora in the pre-1921 logs.
You can learn more about her at: THE HISTORY OF THE SS DORA.

Dora Bay, Dora Lake, Dora Passage, and two Dora Islands are named for her.
Alaskan Place Names -- Reference contains Dora Harbor, but that may not be named after the SS Dora.

Coast Guard in the Arctic 2021

A Break in the Silence: Anecdote from a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker’s winter Arctic patrol

Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returns to homeport

U.S. Coast Guard, Russian Border Guard patrolled maritime boundary line

Coast Guard medevacs man near Cold Bay

Coast Guard Issues Commercial Fishing Violation Near Cape Barnabas

Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star Nears End of Months-Long Arctic Deployment

Coast Guard Cutter Hickory crew delivers water to Angoon residents experiencing waterline failures

Coast Guard Medevacs Man 30 Miles off Cold Bay

Coast Guard Medevacs Woman from Vessel near Cold Bay

Coast Guard Responds to Diesel Fuel Discharge near Sitka

Coast Guard Cutter Douglas Munro Returns Home from Final Patrol

Coast Guard decommissions service’s final high endurance cutter

Coast Guard, partners to conduct commercial fishing vessel exams, lifesaving education for Western Alaska and Bristol Bay

Coast Guard medevacs man from yacht near Ketchikan

Coast Guard Cutter Stratton returns home following 105-day deployment

Coast Guard, Navy Conduct Joint Agency Oil Pollution Response Exercise
https://www.geonames.org/5865569/kachemak-bay.html

Coast Guard rescues Four people near Valdez
https://www.geonames.org/5877389/valdez.html

Coast Guard Cutter returns to Kodiak from Bering Sea patrol

Coast Guard icebreaker departs for months-long Arctic deployment, circumnavigation of North America

Coast Guard medevacs man with assistance from good Samaritans

Randi wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 3:05 pm Coast Guard medevacs man from Patricia Lee, 200 miles southwest of Dutch Harbor

'Weather at the time of the hoist included 40 mph winds gusting to 55 and 14-foot seas, with rain, snow and sleet squalls.'
That takes some guts to go swinging around on a thin wire in that lot - amazingly brave

In case you are wondering about the name change (Old Weather: Arctic to Old Weather: Federal ships), we have a whole bunch new ships coming!
World voyages in the late 1800s, Yangtze River in early 1900s, ....

Ooh, that sounds nice - I was getting tired of the exact same Alaskan places, again and again!

I suspect that one reason we are doing so many ships in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska is that there is a major low pressure system that inhabits that part of the world. It is caused, in part, by the massive high pressure system that sits over eastern Siberia. That said, there are lots of places that would be more interesting for intrepid transcriber!

Can we change the Chat title on this thread to something else?

The wardroom?

That sounds very nice- will you be served cocktails before dinner then? And hot toddies for after dinner?

Off course!

With

AvastMH wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:06 pm cocktails before dinner then? And hot toddies for after dinner?

you probably would end up

Michael wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:36 pm Off course

We'll see. We are toasting Boxing Day with the Dude's White Russian cocktail, and we're heading north up Tolmie Channel, which is barely 1/2 mi wide, so it will be a test of our sobriety!

With White Russian Cocktails will they care if they ping off the coast a bit?

Probably not!

Here's an example showing why bearings are so important, and bonus points to SleepyOwl for logging both. The noon bearings off Cape Cod and Alceste Island place the ship in the position shown. The position shown by My Point, is the ship's noon Lat/Long. You would suspect it should be good, being given to the nearest second:

37^o18'12"N 122^o38'30"E

The two positions are 13.8 miles apart. Because the ship was coming from the northwest, it would have to cross land to get to the Noon Lat/Long.



Being that the year was 1867, it may be that their charts were not as precise as they are now.

Most of us have seen mentions of the steering compass and the standard compass...

https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Article/2700634/the-long-blue-line-danmarkthe-friend-ship-between-denmark-and-the-coast-guard/ wrote:One cadet awoke Langevad to show how the cadet’s navigational plot had put the ship ashore in Massachusetts. Without saying a single word or moving a muscle in his face, Langevad showed that the cadet had applied steering compass deviation to the standard compass, then he yawned and went back to sleep.

Randi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:56 am Compasses:
COMPASSIPEDIA -- The Online Compass Museum
[Bunting Tosser]

• Steering Compass:
  Ships are required to have a magnetic compass at the primary steering station.
  PSTGC (or PSTC) means per steering compass (usually uncorrected).
• Standard Compass:
  If a ship has a second magnetic compass, it is called the standard compass and is normally located at the secondary conning station.
  PSC means per standard compass (usually uncorrected).
• Gyrocompass:
  "Despite the excellence of the gyro mechanism, the magnetic compass is still standard equipment used aboard ship. Because the gyrocompass is powered by electricity, it would be useless in a power failure. It is an extremely complicated and delicate instrument, and it is subject to mechanical failure."
  PGC means per gyrocompass (usually uncorrected).

http://navyadministration.tpub.com/1422 ... ses-60.htm,
http://navyadministration.tpub.com/1406 ... ent-25.htm, and
[Kevin]