Entry Index: 144
Position: No position
Date by Position: 16 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: 350 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 105 tons 993 lbs AM Weather cloudy and foggy at times. Fresh breeze and strong squalls from S.E. At 11 Commanding Officer inspected the ship. Sounded in 22 1/2 fathoms. Floe drifting to N.W. Lead on port side of ship about half open. Ship heeling 4° to starboard. PM At 1 divine service was held, Comd'g Officer officiating. At 2.30 the lead on port side was freed by the young ice drifting to N.W. Between 2.30 and 6 the lead was filled with broken pieces of young ice that drifted from the S.E. Moon 23° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At 2.30 p.m. the young ice alongside of us commences to split, and immediately the floebergs commence to make down on us. Jumping on the deck-house I view the procession with some anxiety. By great good fortune a projecting piece of our starboard floe holds on and fends off the floating pieces, and this push, aided by the wind, carries all dangerous masses just clear of our port side. Just astern of us there happens to be a bight in the floe, into which the drifting ice goes quietly and comfortably, and the open spaces being soon filled up the movement ceases about three.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | se | 30.12 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 2 | se | 30.09 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 3 | se | 30.04 | — | -2.0 | — | 32.0 | ozsq |
| 4 | se | 29.95 | — | -1.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 5 | se | 29.93 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | ozsq |
| 6 | se | 29.9 | — | 0.5 | — | 32.0 | ozsq |
| 7 | se | 29.87 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | ocqz |
| 8 | se | 29.84 | — | -2.5 | — | 32.0 | ocqz |
| 9 | se | 29.82 | — | 3.0 | — | 32.0 | ocqz |
| 10 | sexs | 29.73 | — | 4.0 | — | 32.0 | ocqz |
| 11 | sexs | 29.75 | — | 5.0 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 12 | sexs | 29.75 | — | 6.5 | — | 32.0 | oc |
| 13 | se | 29.71 | — | 7.3 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 14 | se | 29.66 | — | 7.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 15 | se | 29.62 | — | 9.5 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 16 | se | 29.62 | — | 10.7 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 17 | sexe | 29.61 | — | 12.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 18 | sexe | 29.59 | — | 13.5 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 19 | se | 29.59 | — | 15.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 20 | se | 29.57 | — | 16.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 21 | se | 29.56 | — | 17.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 22 | se | 29.54 | — | 17.0 | — | 32.0 | bcz |
| 23 | se | 29.51 | — | 16.5 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
| 24 | se | 29.59 | — | 17.0 | — | 32.0 | bczq |
