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 > > >------------------------------- >visit TheShipsList Website >http://www.theshipslist.com/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message