First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa prepare to launch a surf boat to investigate a distressed vessel. From May's journal, dated June 1st: "By radio we hear that two boats have been reported missing, and we are now searching for them....
Includes forecast of wind and weather in the North Pacific for July, U.S. weather and temperature signals, U.S. storm signals, fog signals, time ball, steamer routes from Brito to Yokohama and Hongkong, equator crossings for sailing passages in the...