Entry Index: 136
Position: No position
Date by Position: 8 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: 375 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 106 tons 363 lbs AM Weather overcast and calm. Very little motion to ice. Ship lying in the eastern part of a large floe that extents to the W.N.W. (true) and is apparently aground. The ice in the vicinity of this floe is broken up and seems to be moved by conflicting currents. At 9.30 high land was visible from aloft bearing from S. (true) to S.S.E. (true). At 11.30 sounded in 23 fathoms. Blue mud. No drift. Ship heeling 4° to starboard. PM Weather overcast and cloudy. Calms or light airs from S.E. to E. Between 5 and 6 there was a slight movement in the ice to the S'd of ship. Moon 2° N. Last quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
A quiet day and a relief to the anxiety of yesterday. Still I cannot help feeling more or less uneasy. The line of broken ice is so near us that I fear we may have some trouble at the next gale of wind. All the commotion of yesterday occurred with calms or light airs. Had it been at regular periods, it might have been considered due to tidal action; but as it occurred only once in the twenty-four hours that idea must be abandoned. Some resisting field of ice has given way, and the rush was the result.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | 29.66 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 2 | calm | 29.67 | — | -6.5 | — | 32.0 | o |
| 3 | calm | 29.67 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 4 | calm | 29.68 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 5 | calm | 29.69 | — | -4.5 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 6 | calm | 29.7 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | ocm |
| 7 | calm | 29.72 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | ocm |
| 8 | calm | 29.74 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 9 | calm | 29.76 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 10 | calm | 29.76 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 11 | calm | 29.76 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 12 | calm | 29.76 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 13 | calm | 29.74 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 14 | calm | 29.73 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 15 | calm | 29.74 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 16 | calm | 29.74 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 17 | calm | 29.75 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 18 | calm | 29.75 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 19 | calm | 29.75 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 20 | calm | 29.79 | — | -3.8 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 21 | se | 29.8 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 22 | se | 29.78 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 23 | east | 29.77 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 24 | east | 29.76 | — | -3.3 | — | 32.0 | oc |
