Entry Index: 201
Position: No position
Date by Position: 12 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 32 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 32 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 383 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 98 tons 711 lbs AM Day opened calm and overcast. Very nearly steady barometer and temperature to noon. Faint auroral gleam to N. & N.W. at 1. At 2 a sound of ice moving in the distance to W'd. Early daylight at 7.55. Sounded at noon in 30 fathoms. Dark green mud. No indicated drift. Ship heeling 2 1/2° to starboard. Crew engaged in washing clothes in deck-house. PM At 1.15 there was a sharp shock to the ship like a sudden nip, occasioning no other movement than 1/4 of a point in azimuth. The ice in the immediate neighborhood of the ship remained intact, but a slight movement was observed about 800 yards to the S. and S.W. of our position. Overcast and gloomy until 11 when it cleared before a light N.W. breeze, occasioning a sudden great fall in temperature. Moon 14° S. New moon
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At two a.m. a slight ice movement to westward. At 1.15 p.m. a sudden sharp crack made the ship jump one quarter of a point in azimuth. Supposing that we were in for a time, I ran out on deck, but found everything surrounding the ship in its usual quiet. About eight hundred yards to the southward, however, there was the sound of grinding and crushing, and this movement no doubt was the cause of our getting a sudden nip and consequent scare. Knowing that all our trouble came at new and full moon, and that we had a new moon yesterday, I stood by anxiously all the afternoon and evening for some further demonstrations, but nothing occurred, and we were able to go to bed in peace and quiet.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | 30.47 | — | -5.0 | -4.5 | — | oc |
| 2 | calm | 30.47 | — | -4.8 | — | — | oc |
| 3 | calm | 30.46 | — | -4.8 | — | — | oc |
| 4 | calm | 30.46 | — | -4.5 | — | — | oc |
| 5 | calm | 30.47 | — | -4.5 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | calm | 30.47 | — | -4.0 | — | — | oc |
| 7 | calm | 30.47 | — | -4.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | calm | 30.47 | — | -4.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | calm | 30.48 | — | -5.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | calm | 30.49 | — | -5.0 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | w | 30.49 | — | -4.0 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | nw | 30.46 | — | -4.4 | -4.2 | 30.0 | ocz |
| 13 | nw | 30.42 | — | -5.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 14 | calm | 30.41 | — | -6.8 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | wnw | 30.43 | — | -9.2 | — | — | ocz |
| 16 | wnw | 30.44 | — | -11.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 17 | wxn | 30.45 | — | -10.8 | — | — | oczs |
| 18 | wxn | 30.46 | — | -10.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 19 | wxn | 30.47 | — | -10.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 20 | wxn | 30.47 | — | -9.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | wxn | 30.47 | — | -9.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | wxn | 30.45 | — | -12.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 23 | nw | 30.45 | — | -18.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | nw | 30.45 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bz |
