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Re: [TSL] L-o-n-g voyage
Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca> on 03/04/2010

Kathy

Judging from the newspapers that year they had a very early winter 
storm and there were many comments about it and wrecks reported. 
There was also a report of a late hurricane going up the coast so 
that might be the reason for the terrible gales which the ships were 
reporting. The north Atlantic is never a pleasant sail in the late fall.

Regards..

Marj

Regards..

Marj

At 09:46 PM 3/3/2010, Kathy wrote:
>Marj Kohli wrote:
> > One think I notice in the NY Times is that many of the vessels were
> > reporting very foggy weather -- so much so that some were several days
> > in the bay waiting for the fog to lift. I also see ships arriving a few
> > weeks before the Stanislaus reporting heavy gales.
> >
> > It is possible that the weather played a big part in the length of the
> > voyage.
>
>Thanks for looking into this. It's been a while since I gathered all the
>data I presented, so I had forgotten that I had also collected comments
>about the voyage. There certainly were a lot of reports about heavy gales.
>
>What I'm still wondering is whether that was typical or atypical for the
>season, why Antwerp ships took longer to cross the ocean than those
>departing from other ports, and why one ship that left on the same day
>as another from the same port could take 2 1/2 weeks longer in crossing.
>Presumably they encountered the same weather phenomena.
>
>Thanks for your ideas,
>Kathy
>
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