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Welcome on board the Alaska (Bark) of San Francisco. Mastered by Charles W. Fisher, W.T. Macomber, B.B. Worth, and George W. Porter, on voyage from 4 Dec. 1890-8 Nov. 1891

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 by personal message
  • 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
Journey section
/ Users
Date from Date to General Position Comments
A
Available after Bering
Sea sections
are completed
18900412 18910203 From San Francisco to South of the equator and back up to Honolulu General work about the ship and a couple of possible sperm whale catches
B
Available after Bering
Sea sections
are completed
18910204 18910410 Short stop at Hawaii and then up to the North Pacific General work again
C
Captain: Stream A: Shiplover
First mate: Stream B:
Boatsteerer: Stream C:
18910411 18910605 April 11th finally at Chirikof Island (55.8326, -155.63321) on the lower border of the Aleutian Chain, just north of the pacific basin Catching Right Whales
D
Captain: Stream A: Shiplover
First mate: Stream B:
Boatsteerer: Stream C:
18910606 18910806 July 26th, she passes through 'Ounimak Shalers' (possibly means the Unimak Shallows) Heading NW
E
Captain: Stream A: Shiplover
First mate: Stream B:
Boatsteerer: Stream C:
18910807 18910921 September 21st, location is St George's Island Spending most of her time close to St George's and catching some whales.
F
Captain: Stream A: Shiplover
First mate: Stream B:
Boatsteerer: Stream C:
18910922 18911206 October 24th, at 3 PM the pass through the straits (known as the '72 Pass') Last entry in logbook is the 6th December in San Francisco

Note
The ship works on Civil time (starts and ends at midnight): June 18th 1891 . Day commenced [...] at 9.30 AM [...] at 2 PM [...] at 7 PM [...] So ends this day

Thank you for your help :D
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