Entry Index: 152
Position: No position
Date by Position: 24 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: 125 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 104 tons 1363 lbs AM Weather stormy. Air filled with driving snow. Fresh S.W. gale. At 5 a moderate pressure commenced on the stem which lifted the ship bows and made a wall of young ice ahead of the ship. Strong pressure on port beam and young ice piling up alongside. At 6 the ice from ahead wedged in under the starboard bow and forced the ship to port out of the cradle in the floe on the starboard side. Ship righted to 1 1/2°. Ship trims by the head and is apparently lifted by ice under the quarters, the forward part of ship being afloat. Ice slacked up at 7. Sounded in 22 fathoms at 12. Drifting N'd & E'd. Ship heeling 1° to starboard. PM Overcast and stormy. Air filled with driving snow. Gale from S.W. Ice on port side slack. Moon 15° N. First quarter
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It has come at last; we are broken adrift from our floe! Suspecting what the continued action of this S.W. wind would be, I made sure to have all the dogs securely housed on board ship before I went to bed last night, i.e., before I lay down in my clothes to get some sleep. At five p.m. I was aroused by a preliminary pressure under the bow. Turning out I reached the deck-house top in time to see a very severe nip which started our port bulwark planking, the ice being already piled higher than our port rail in some places. The ice under the bow was piled up as high as our figure-head, and the pressure in this direction was increasing. A floe piece with a wedge shape had pierced "our" floe, and was exerting its force bravely. The ship creaked and groaned. Something had to give, for the pressure from ahead and abeam was very great. Suddenly the ship lifted by the stern, the wedge advanced, and our floe was split, and the port pressure decreasing we were afloat on an even keel once more. The port floe moved slowly to the N.E., and we followed it, our snug cradle of two and a half months being split and shattered, and no longer our refuge and our strength. All our effects being long since removed we had nothing to bring in but our gangplank, which was soon accomplished. Throughout the day we remained nearly in the same place, resting at one time against one floe, and at other times against another.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sw | 28.95 | — | 2.5 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 2 | sw | 28.97 | — | 2.0 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 3 | sw | 28.98 | — | 1.5 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 4 | sw | 29.02 | — | 0.0 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 5 | swxw | 29.05 | — | -1.0 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 6 | sw | 29.07 | — | -1.0 | — | 32.0 | bzs |
| 7 | sw | 29.1 | — | -1.5 | — | 32.0 | ocs |
| 8 | sw | 29.11 | — | -2.0 | — | 32.0 | ocs |
| 9 | sw | 29.16 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 10 | swxw | 29.21 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | bc |
| 11 | swxw | 29.26 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | ocz |
| 12 | swxw | 29.31 | — | -3.0 | — | 32.0 | os |
| 13 | swxw | 29.34 | — | -3.5 | — | 32.0 | ozs |
| 14 | swxs | 29.38 | — | -3.7 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 15 | swxs | 29.41 | — | -4.3 | — | 32.0 | bcs |
| 16 | ssw | 29.44 | — | -4.8 | — | 32.0 | ozs |
| 17 | ssw | 29.46 | — | -4.5 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 18 | ssw | 29.5 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 19 | sw | 29.54 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 20 | sw | 29.57 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 21 | sw | 29.6 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 22 | sw | 29.63 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | bczs |
| 23 | swxw | 29.63 | — | -5.0 | — | 32.0 | oz |
| 24 | swxw | 29.63 | — | -4.0 | — | 32.0 | oz |
