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Hi George

I dug out my reproduction of Worsley's log for the voyage of the Caird.  

Frank Worsley indicates that he only had 4 fixes for the entire journey.  I 
seem to be missing 2 pages so I can only confirm some of the data.  I have 
written to the Museum to get this rectified and when I have all of the data I 
will complete the story.  One further note, as George has pointed out, this 
data is extremely hard to read.  This is not some crisp typewritten log book.

On 24 April 1916, Worsley takes the lower limb of the sun at Wild Camp (on 
Elephant Island) for the purposes of rating the chronometer.  62 deg S, 54.5 
deg W

On 26 April, Worsley takes the lower limb of the sun.  I haven't figured out 
what he does with this yet.  59 deg 46' S, 50 deg 48' W

On 29 April, Worsley has an observation (not denoted) 58 deg 38' S 50 deg 0' W

here is where the gap in my reproduction is...I will straighten this out!

On 7 May, Worsley has 3 lower limbs of the sun, they give his position as 54 
deg 26' S  40 deg 44' W, then 54 deg 23' S 39 deg 40'W and finally 54 deg 38' 
S 39 deg 36' W;  at various times of the day

On 8 May, Worsley sights land at 12:30 and gives a neat sketch of the 
appearance of S.Georgia Island, and denotes that there is a glacier in one 
mountain pass.

These seem to be in agreement with Worsley's chart as presented to the group 
by George.  Until we have that 4th observation and logbook, we will not truly 
know why he sailed a latitude line from 5 May to 8 May.  The predominant 
current in the Southern Ocean there is from west to east.  It appears as if 
he set out from Wild Camp (by his notes) NNE and sailed up until he reached 
the latitude of S.Georgia, and then headed due east.  

Best Regards
Brad




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