Entry Index: 180
Position: No position
Date by Position: 22 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: 28 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 385 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 100 tons 1877 lbs AM Day opened clear overhead and hazy in lower parts of atmosphere. Fresh breeze from W'd. At 11.15 sounded in 31 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Drifting to E'd. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. First sign of daylight at 8.40am. Air filled with drifting snow from surface of floe ice. PM Clear. Fresh breeze from W'd. Scrubbed clothes. Bright moonlight and starlight. At 4.30pm an auroral arch of streamers in N. by E. magnetic, the crown of the arch having an altitude of 20°. At 7 faint aurora to N'd. At 8 brilliant aurora in an arch from E. to W. (both magnetic) passing through zenith, with bright bows shooting up occasionally from northern horizon. At 9 double auroral arch from W. to N.E. x E. (both magnetic), crown at north (magnetic) 60° in altitude. Faint auroral patches under moon S. x E. (mag.). At 11 auroral streamers beginning at N.W. (mag.) arching to 30° altitude at N. (mag.) and returning at NNE (mag.) in an ellipse to beginning. Moon 18° N. First quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wxs | 29.41 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | sw | 29.41 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | sw | 29.45 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | sw | 29.48 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | wxn | 29.48 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
| 6 | wxn | 29.5 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
| 7 | wsw | 29.54 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | wsw | 29.56 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxs | 29.59 | — | -20.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | wxs | 29.62 | — | -19.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | wxs | 29.62 | — | -19.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | wxs | 29.65 | — | -19.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 13 | sw | 29.68 | — | -17.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | sw | 29.73 | — | -17.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | sw | 29.78 | — | -17.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | sw | 29.82 | — | -17.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | swxw | 29.85 | — | -16.8 | — | — | b |
| 18 | sw | 29.88 | — | -16.2 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | wxs | 29.91 | — | -15.0 | — | — | b |
| 20 | wxs | 29.92 | — | -15.0 | — | — | b |
| 21 | wxs | 29.94 | — | -15.0 | — | — | b |
| 22 | wxs | 29.96 | — | -14.0 | — | — | b |
| 23 | wsw | 29.98 | — | -14.0 | — | — | b |
| 24 | wsw | 30.0 | — | -14.5 | — | — | b |