Notes

Collection: Ships' Logs Collection

	User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
	Nantucket Historical Association	Hello! Thank you for the feedback. The majority of our logbook collection documents whaling voyages, however, we will try to include a mix of other types of voyages in the future.	19	Log of the sloop Dolphin, 1790-1791	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	dchurbuck	On July 31, 1854 the log notes "At 2 PM carried away pearl [PARREL]band and saddle of fore topsail yard." A "parrel" according to the Merriam Webster diction is "a rope loop of sliding collar by which a yard or spar is held to a mast in such a way...	22	Log of the ship Edward Cary, 1854–1858	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	Blondie	Scud To run before a gale with little or no sail set. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition	62	Logs of the ship Joseph Maxwell and the ship Midas, 1848–1857	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	dchurbuck	June 23 - "Spoke barque Sun 8 months out clean." - Bark Sun of Mattapoisett, Captain Tatch, owner R.L. Barstow. Departed Mattapoisett October 14, 1853; returned September 8, 1855 380 bbls sperm oil, sent home 147 bbls. sperm -- Starbuck, p. 508	14	Log of the ship Edward Cary, 1854–1858	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	formerfarmer	Can NHA put up some more ships logs other than whalers for transcribing? Riddell's journal was a lot more interesting to transcribe than counts of dead whales	19	Log of the sloop Dolphin, 1790-1791	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	dchurbuck	May 24 - spoke the barque "Union" of Bedford -- most likely the bark Union of New Bedford which sailed from that port on May 23 under command of Capt. Zaccheus Macy, owner Chapman & Bonney	8	Log of the ship Edward Cary, 1854–1858	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	Blondie	"by Acc," meaning "by account," - the latitude calculated from the course and distance sailed since the previous location; a common procedure when the weather was too thick for observation. www.mysticeseaport.org	47	Logs of the ship Joseph Maxwell and the ship Midas, 1848–1857	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	Blondie	gal·ly ˈga-lē gallied; gallying transitive verb : frighten, terrify https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gally	59	Logs of the ship Joseph Maxwell and the ship Midas, 1848–1857	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	Blondie	fish 1. To repair a mast or spar with a fillet of wood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms_(A%E2%80%93L)#F	50	Logs of the ship Joseph Maxwell and the ship Midas, 1848–1857	Ships' Logs Collection	4 months ago
	pflysaght	Extremely difficult to decipher! Is it worth the effort??	10	Log of the sloop Dolphin, 1790-1791	Ships' Logs Collection	about 1 year ago
	Blondie	Great!	85	Logs of the bark Tremont and the bark Ocean Bride, 1854-1861	Ships' Logs Collection	about 1 year ago
	Nantucket Historical Association	Unless there are any hand written annotations no. The printed Matter should already be machine readable and thus not need to be transcribed.	85	Logs of the bark Tremont and the bark Ocean Bride, 1854-1861	Ships' Logs Collection	about 1 year ago
	Blondie	Do you want these pre-printed pages of the "Abstract Log for the Merchant Service" transcribed?	85	Logs of the bark Tremont and the bark Ocean Bride, 1854-1861	Ships' Logs Collection	about 1 year ago
	formerfarmer	Suggest the Society publish these abstract log pages as facsimiles - would be much more interesting to a researcher than a transcription	6	Logs of the bark Tremont and the bark Ocean Bride, 1854-1861	Ships' Logs Collection	over 1 year ago