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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Domestic News October 3, 1766
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Captain Clark returned from a whaling voyage and reported that a whale crushed their boat, killing his promising young son, who was reportedly taken into the whale's mouth; the rest were rescued.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 97.42% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.07% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
Clipping
Full Text
Last Night came in Captain Clark from a Whaling Voyage, he informs, that the Thursday before they met with a Whale, upon which they got out their Boat and endeavoured to take him, but he struck at the Boat and instantly crushed it to Pieces, by which Misfortune a promising young Man, Son to the Captain was unfortunately killed; the others were taken up. 'Tis said the Whale was seen to take the unhappy Man into his Mouth.
What sub-type of article is it?
Accident
Shipping
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Whaling Accident
Whale Attack
Captain Clark
Boat Crushed
What entities or persons were involved?
Captain Clark
Captain Clark's Son
Domestic News Details
Event Date
Thursday Before Last Night's Arrival
Key Persons
Captain Clark
Captain Clark's Son
Outcome
captain's son killed; other crew members taken up.