Entry Index: 169
Position: No position
Date by Position: 11 December 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 Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: using as distilled. Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 39 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 375 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 102 tons 541 lbs AM Weather overcast and hazy. Light breezes from S'd and E'd. At 5 there were sounds of heavy pressure to the S.W. of ship. At 8.40 a momentary shock was felt on board the ship and on investigation it was found that the ice had split in an E. and W. direction. The opening was about 60 feet ahead of the ship. During the forenoon the young ice which measured 20 inches in thickness was split in various directions. The ship is now in a floe of young ice which is about 500 yards wide and 1200 yards long. Ship heading S. 3/4 W. (mag.) and her bows at the S. edge of the floe. Heavy floe pieces of old ice gradually encroaching upon the young ice. All the dogs were brought on board also the men's outhouse. Sounded in 32 1/2 fathoms. Mud. Ice drifting to N.E. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. PM Wind shifted to S'd and W'd at 12.20 and storm clouds drove over from that quarter. Strong breeze and squalls during afternoon and evening. Ice quiet. Rapid fall of temperature after 3. Very brilliant auroral arch to N'd having wave like motions. Moon 24° S. Last quarter
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The situation this morning seemed to promise a repetition of our exciting times. Daylight showed a crack in the ice ahead of and nearly alongside the ship, extending from S.W. to N.E. The opening was made so quietly that the watch did not hear any movement beyond a light shock at 8.40. At ten a.m. there it was however, and by eleven it had opened out to a width of six feet, affording us an opportunity of measuring the growth of the ice since November 25th, the time at which we were squeezed out into what was then open water. By actual measurement to-day we find the thickness of the ice to be twenty inches, and that is direct freezing. For some reason the ice immediately surrounding the ship was not broken adrift, nor even badly cracked on the starboard side of us (ship heading S.S.W. true). At eleven movement commenced. The floe in which the ship lay moved to the northward where it was broken on its edges by coming in contact with heavier floes, and remained comparatively motionless, after shortening our two hundred and forty yard walk by some forty yards. The ice on our port hand then got under way and moved along slowly, like a panorama, until it had proceeded about two hundred yards to N.E., and then it stopped; the opening six feet wide began to close, and in a few hours everything was quiet again, except an occasional suppressed shriek indicating pressure. The ship was not affected in the slightest degree.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | se | 29.57 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 2 | sexe | 29.57 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 3 | sexe | 29.56 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 4 | sexe | 29.53 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 5 | se | 29.52 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 6 | se | 29.51 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 7 | sexs | 29.51 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 8 | sexs | 29.51 | — | 7.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | sexs | 29.5 | — | 7.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | sexs | 29.5 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | sexs | 29.52 | — | 12.0 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | swxs | 29.51 | — | 14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 13 | wsw | 29.51 | — | 15.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | sxw | 29.52 | — | 15.0 | — | — | bcq |
| 15 | swxs | 29.52 | — | 16.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 16 | swxw | 29.56 | — | 7.5 | — | — | bcq |
| 17 | swxs | 29.6 | — | 1.0 | — | — | bczq |
| 18 | swxw | 29.62 | — | -0.5 | — | — | ozsq |
| 19 | swxw | 29.67 | — | -3.5 | — | — | bcq |
| 20 | swxw | 29.68 | — | -5.0 | — | — | bcq |
| 21 | swxw | 29.72 | — | -5.5 | — | — | bcq |
| 22 | swxw | 29.74 | — | -6.0 | — | — | bcq |
| 23 | swxw | 29.77 | — | -7.0 | — | — | bzq |
| 24 | wsw | 29.8 | — | -8.0 | — | — | bzq |
