Entry Index: 191
Position: No position
Date by Position: 2 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 36 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 36 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 145 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 99 tons 1292 lbs AM Day opens clear and pleasant with bright moonlight. Light steady breeze from W. by N. with rising barometer and uniformly low temperature. The few clouds marked in log cumulus were about the horizon. Sounded at noon in 31 fathoms. Slight drift indicated to W.S.W. (mag.). Auroral arch 70° in altitude south of zenith, in N. & N.W. from N. to N.W. 1 to 4, and lunar halo at 3. Early daylight at 8.20. PM Wind veers to northward and dies out at midnight. Extraordinary rise of barometer, steady low temperature. Auroral arch at 11, crown passing through ✱ Polaris, and having radiation from easterly end. Arch extending from N.W. to N.E. Ice in motion to S.W. the sound travelling to the west, and resembling the paddle wheels of a steamer beating the water with varying speed, sometimes full speed, sometimes half speed. Moon 0° 29' S. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At daylight numerous water clouds were observed around ns, but they disappeared during the forenoon as the ice closed. At ten p.m. the ice commenced grinding near us in the S.W., the motion, judging by the sound, being transmitted along a line running to the northward. What I mean by that is, that when the ice moved first it was in the S.W.; then the next sound was from S.W. by W., while in the S.W. it was quiet ; so on to W. and along, the sound retreating to the northward. No motion was communicated to the ship or to the ice surrounding her. The noise was exactly like the paddle-wheels of a steamer beating the water, sometimes at full speed, and sometimes at half speed - even as it may be heard on a still night on the North River at home.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wxn | 30.64 | — | -39.5 | — | — | b |
| 2 | wxn | 30.66 | — | -39.5 | — | — | b |
| 3 | wxn | 30.68 | — | -38.6 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | wxn | 30.69 | — | -38.8 | — | — | bc |
| 5 | wxn | 30.71 | — | -39.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | wxn | 30.72 | — | -39.0 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | wxn | 30.74 | — | -39.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | wxn | 30.75 | — | -38.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxn | 30.8 | — | -39.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | wxn | 30.84 | — | -39.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | wxn | 30.84 | — | -38.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | wxn | 30.85 | — | -37.0 | — | 28.0 | bcz |
| 13 | wxn | 30.84 | — | -37.0 | — | — | bo |
| 14 | w | 30.84 | — | -37.0 | — | — | bz |
| 15 | w | 30.86 | — | -37.7 | — | — | bz |
| 16 | w | 30.89 | — | -37.0 | — | — | bz |
| 17 | w | 30.91 | — | -37.6 | — | — | bz |
| 18 | w | 30.95 | — | -36.7 | — | — | bz |
| 19 | nwxn | 30.96 | — | -38.0 | — | — | bz |
| 20 | nwxn | 31.0 | — | -38.0 | — | — | b |
| 21 | nwxn | 31.04 | — | -38.7 | — | — | b |
| 22 | nwxn | 31.06 | — | -39.0 | — | — | b |
| 23 | nnw | 31.09 | — | -38.5 | — | — | b |
| 24 | calm | 31.13 | — | -38.5 | — | — | bz |
