USRC Thetis 1906 logs are full of surprises.
In August, after reaching Point Barrow, she met the Norwegian sloop Gjøa, led by Roald Amundsen and a crew of six, who had just managed to pass for the first time through the Northwest passage!
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I know the sentiment.
For this exact reason I started Journey Plotter back in the day.
While transcribing #WW1 logs for #OldWeather I wanted to see and understand where #RoyalNavy ships had been.
oldweather.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/j...
JP link: www.journeyplotter.nl
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It's always fascinating when logs contain details of scientific relevance.
On 10th July 1906, USRC Thetis perform a reconnaissance of Bogoslof Island(s) after a major geological event. The hand drawn sketch is awesome.
1905-06 logs will appear soon on naval-history.net
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USRC Thetis logkeeper struggling with the Russian name of a seaman (should be Constantine Yakovlev - Яковлев in his language). After Jokoflef, Jokofleff and Jkofliff he gives up and write just Constantine 😄
Luckily I could link all these names, sometimes it can be tricky
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Just in time for the new year, the edited logs of USRC Thetis 1901-02 have been published: www.naval-history.net/OW-US/Thetis...
Beside De Windt expedition and Mike Healy command, the logs are full, as always, of big and small fascinating details
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Harry de Windt article about his Paris-New York overland expedition in October 1902 issue of The World Wide Magazine
Every batch of logs has its awesome moments
In June 1902 USRC Thetis help RGS Fellow Harry de Windt and his team to cross Bering Strait and continue their overland Paris-New York expedition
Edited logs of Thetis 1901-02 will be available soon on naval-history.net website
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In order to celebrate my move on Bluesky i'd like to share the current state of our #OldWeather database of obscure placenames, which has reached the quite impressive amount of 36000 (and counting) unique names.
Lists and maps are freely available in the files section of owtools.scienceontheweb.net
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JP makes use of data from original log-books that have been transcribed by volunteers on the Old Weather project.
'Old Weather and more'; a short piece I wrote a while ago on the impact #OldWeather has in fields other than climate.
oldweatherforum.org/viewtopic.ph...
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Screen capture showing an example of the On This Day page of the Journey Plotter website
JP website also features an On This Day page.
www.journeyplotter.nl/otd
Read a random log page for this day from the many ships transcribed by volunteers on the #OldWeather project, edited into a more readable form by volunteers on the naval-history.net project.
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John Marshall. 26 years of age. Mariner of Leith. Depsoing in the High Court of Admiralty in late 1613 on a storm which lasted 5 days "Tossed and tumpled upp and downe with the tempest and waves of the sea which continually overraked the shipp" #earlymodern #navalhistory #oldweather
Map showing places related to the crew of USS Jamestown (1879-1881) near Sitka, Alaska
Map showing places related to the crew of USS Jamestown (1879-1881) further away from Sitka, Alaska
USS Jamestown was stationed at #Sitka, #Alaska, from 1879 to 1881.
They left their mark till this day, though.
For a full list of officers and links to landmarks named after them, check this post at the #OldWeather forum:
www.oldweatherforum.org/viewtopic.ph...
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