Entry Index: 134
Position: No position
Date by Position: 6 November 1879
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Latitude by observation at noon: no observation Longitude by chronometer from forenoon observations: no observation Snow used for water Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 255 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 106 tons 863 lbs AM Cloudy and cold. Snowing at times. Dim moonlight. Fresh breeze from N.W. hauled to the S.S.W. and fell to a light breeze. At 11 sounded in 18 fathoms. Blue mud. Ship heeling 4° to starboard. No drift observable. A large and long crack was made in the ice about 60 yards astern and a narrow one about 45 yards ahead was made during the night. PM Weather cloudy. Light breeze from S.S.W. Ice cracking in various places. At 4.30 ice opened near the observatory. Removed anemometer and other instruments to the ship. At 6 sounded in 18 fathoms. Ship drifting to N.E. (mag.). Ice in motion. Moon 4° N. Full moon
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A day of extraordinary interest and some anxiety. At nine a.m. we were disagreeably surprised at finding a large crack in the ice on the starboard quarter about two hundred yards distant, a small crack under and right across the stern, and a small crack leading from the stern for a hundred yards ahead. Although I could not account for them, I saw no reason to be uneasy, for we have had no high winds this month, and no pressure had occurred in our vicinity. At four p.m., however, Collins, who had gone on the usual hourly visit to the observatory and anemometer, came running back announcing that an opening had occurred in the ice between the observatory and tripod. We all hurried out and found a large rent, already four feet wide and widening, extending parallel with the ship's length to her starboard quarter, and thence across her stern, averaging one hundred yards in distance. We promptly removed the instruments (anemometer, thermometers, rain-gauge, barometer, and dip-circle, etc.) to the ship, setting them up there. The opening kept on widening, new ice forming immediately on the surface, and by midnight it was some twenty yards in width. Some premonitory crashes and groans of the ice added to my anxiety lest some fissures should occur in our floe and make our position serious. But we did not move an inch, either in our angle of heel (4°) or in azimuth, and at midnight we have nothing worse to contemplate than an opening one hundred yards off.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nw | 29.42 | — | 2.7 | — | 32.0 | os |
| 2 | nw | 29.43 | — | 2.5 | — | 32.0 | os |
| 3 | nw | 29.42 | — | 1.2 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 4 | nw | 29.43 | — | 1.2 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 5 | nw | 29.43 | — | 3.8 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 6 | nw | 29.43 | — | 4.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 7 | wsw | 29.44 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 8 | wsw | 29.44 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 9 | calm | 29.44 | — | -7.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 10 | ssw | 29.44 | — | -9.5 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 11 | ssw | 29.45 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 12 | ssw | 29.46 | — | -2.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 13 | ssw | 29.42 | — | -2.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 14 | ssw | 29.43 | — | -1.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 15 | ssw | 29.43 | — | -0.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 16 | ssw | 29.45 | — | 0.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 17 | ssw | 29.47 | — | -0.5 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 18 | ssw | 29.48 | — | 1.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 19 | ssw | 29.49 | — | 1.2 | — | 32.0 | o |
| 20 | ssw | 29.51 | — | 1.7 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 21 | ssw | 29.55 | — | 2.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 22 | ssw | 29.56 | — | 1.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 23 | swxw | 29.57 | — | 2.3 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 24 | swxw | 29.57 | — | 2.3 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
