Entry Index: 184
Position: No position
Date by Position: 26 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: 34 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 34 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 315 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 100 tons 857 lbs AM Crew engaged in banking up snow against ships sides. At 11.15 sounded in 31 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift indicated by lead line. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. Day begins with strong winds from E. by S. (mag.) which veered to S.E. x E. by noon and die out. Falling barometer and rising temperature. PM Aired bedding in deck house. At 10.15 the ice opened, opening curving from ahead to and along the port beam, and about 300 yards distant. A slight pressure on our starboard side accompanied the ice movement. The width of the opening was about 12 feet. Moon 25° N. First quarter
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At 10.15 p.m. a sharp crack was heard on our starboard side, and on going on deck to look for a cause open water was discerned ahead and on our port side to the eastward about three hundred yards distant. I went out to it and found that the ice had opened into a channel about twelve feet wide, extending for about a mile north and south, and curving around our bow to some new ice made over an opening of yesterday. I must now believe that this ocean is subject to tidal action, for as all our pressures have been at or about the times of full and new moon (full moon, October 29th; new, November 13th; full, November 28th; new, December 12th; full, December 28th), they can be traced to the greater movement due to the spring tides, as suggested by Chipp, on October 31st.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exs | 29.8 | — | 8.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 2 | exs | 29.76 | — | 8.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 3 | exs | 29.73 | — | 8.3 | — | — | ocz |
| 4 | ese | 29.71 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 5 | ese | 29.7 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 6 | ese | 29.68 | — | 9.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | ese | 29.68 | — | 7.0 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | ese | 29.66 | — | 6.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | ese | 29.64 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | ese | 29.64 | — | 11.0 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | ese | 29.64 | — | 13.0 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | sexs | 29.61 | — | 14.2 | — | — | oc |
| 13 | calm | 29.6 | — | 15.2 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | sw | 29.57 | — | 13.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | sw | 29.56 | — | 10.4 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | sw | 29.56 | — | 6.6 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | sw | 29.55 | — | 5.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | sw | 29.54 | — | 4.7 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | sw | 29.55 | — | 6.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | wsw | 29.52 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 21 | wxn | 29.52 | — | 9.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 22 | wxn | 29.52 | — | 5.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 23 | w1/2n | 29.51 | — | 2.0 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | wxn | 29.52 | — | -1.0 | — | — | bc |
