Entry Index: 142
Position: No position
Date by Position: 14 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: 330 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 105 tons 1473 lbs AM Clear and cold. Light airs from S.S.E. to S.W. All hands engaged in securing boats and implements brought in from the ice. Piped down at 1.30. Ice in motion. Water smooth. Young ice forming over lead. Sun rose at 10.30. Land in sight bearing from S. 17° W. to S. 15° E. (mag.) = S. 40° W. (true) and S. 6° W. (true). Herald Island in sight and bearing S. 49° E. (true). At 9 sounded in 17 1/2 fathoms. Blue mud. Sounded at 12 in 21 fathoms. Blue mud. Apparently drifting to E.N.E. (true). Long lead of open water extending E.S.E. to W.N.W. (true). Water sky from N. by E. to W. (true). Numerous ponds in sight from which steam rises. Ship heeling 4° to starboard. PM Clear and cold. Light breeze from S.S.W. broken ice moving to eastward in lead. Faint aurora from 8 to 12. Moon 25° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
Daylight this morning showed us that our port floe with its snow wall was five hundred yards to the northward. It first moved to the eastward, then to the westward, and finally came to a stand opposite its proper place alongside the ship, and five hundred yards distant. Ice formed four inches in thickness in the fire-hole during the night.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ssw | 29.81 | — | -11.5 | — | 32.0 | bz |
| 2 | ssw | 29.8 | — | -11.5 | — | 32.0 | bz |
| 3 | ssw | 29.79 | — | -11.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 4 | calm | 29.79 | — | -10.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 5 | calm | 29.78 | — | -10.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 6 | calm | 29.77 | — | -10.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 7 | sse | 29.77 | — | -10.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 8 | sse | 29.77 | — | -9.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 9 | calm | 29.76 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 10 | calm | 29.74 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 11 | swxs | 29.76 | — | -10.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 12 | swxs | 29.79 | — | -10.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 13 | ssw | 29.78 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 14 | ssw | 29.78 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 15 | ssw | 29.78 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 16 | ssw | 29.77 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 17 | ssw | 29.79 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 18 | ssw | 29.8 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 19 | sw | 29.83 | — | -9.5 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 20 | wsw | 29.85 | — | -11.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 21 | wsw | 29.9 | — | -12.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 22 | wsw | 29.89 | — | -12.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 23 | wxn | 29.93 | — | -9.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 24 | wnw | 29.96 | — | -9.0 | — | 32.0 | bcs |
