Entry Index: 143
Position: No position
Date by Position: 15 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: 130 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 105 tons 1343 lbs AM Weather generally cloudy and pleasant. Light westerly breezes. Lead on port side of ship covered with young ice. Condemned for dog food 16 lbs beef soup marked "Huckins" and 6 lbs roast beef marked "Cutting Packing Co. San Francisco, Cal". At 12 sounded in 20 fathoms. Blue mud. Floe drifting to E'd. Ship heeling 4° to starboard. PM Weather cloudy and hazy. Calm or gentle breeze from S.E. growing fresh. Ice quiet. Faint aurora. Moon 25° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
A day of complete quiet as far as ice is concerned. The open water on our port side has frozen over sufficiently to bear walking upon it.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wnw | 29.98 | — | -8.0 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 2 | wnw | 30.0 | — | -7.0 | — | 32.0 | bcfs |
| 3 | wnw | 30.02 | — | -7.0 | — | 32.0 | bcfs |
| 4 | wnw | 30.04 | — | -7.5 | — | 32.0 | bcs |
| 5 | wnw | 30.07 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 6 | wnw | 30.1 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 7 | wnw | 30.12 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 8 | w | 30.16 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bcqm |
| 9 | wsw | 30.2 | — | -9.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 10 | wnw | 30.24 | — | -9.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 11 | calm | 30.29 | — | -12.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 12 | calm | 30.3 | — | -14.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 13 | calm | 30.2 | — | -14.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 14 | calm | 30.3 | — | -14.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 15 | calm | 30.31 | — | -11.5 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 16 | calm | 30.27 | — | -6.5 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 17 | calm | 30.27 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 18 | se | 30.28 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | ofs |
| 19 | se | 30.28 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 20 | se | 30.29 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 21 | se | 30.28 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 22 | se | 30.24 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | of |
| 23 | se | 30.21 | — | -6.0 | — | 32.0 | ofq |
| 24 | se | 30.18 | — | -4.5 | — | 32.0 | ofq |
