Entry Index: 210
Position: No position
Date by Position: 21 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 1800 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 95 tons 940 lbs By 1am the work of running steam piping to the auxiliary pump forward from the main boiler by way of the whistle pipe was completed and an attempt was made to send steam through it, but the steam whistle pipe being frozen none would pass. Took down and thawed pipe and tried again getting the pump to work. Found the suction pipe too small, and substituted the main engine bilge suction pipe for it. This was completed at 7am and the auxiliary steam pump set to work performing well, keeping the water in check. As the water flowed more freely to the engine room pump that was run about half the time also; and the fore peak was thus kept free enough to build a small bulkhead resting on the cant frames fast abaft the bow filling constructed at Mare Island and checking the flow of water in that places. As at times the suction pipe of the auxiliary pump got the water down to the sucking point, plugs were driven in the forward bulkhead of the fore hold to keep the water from flowing aft to the engine pump. This kept the auxiliary pump man steadily at work, and permitted the watch in the engine room to proceed to make the necessary forgings and fittings for connecting the forward spar deck hand bilge pump to the Baxter boiler and 2 FP. engine. Light breeze from W'd all day freshening toward midnight. Barometer falls slightly until 7pm when it commences to rise. Very little change in temperature. During the afternoon little spits of driving snow. Early daylight at 6.47am. The sky at the beginning of the day was nearly clear of clouds with auroral bands or broken arches curving away from N. x E. to N.W. chiefly the N.W. Also streamers in N. x E. Later in the AM the aurora passed to S. as a pale arch having an altitude of 25°, with streamers radiating from N.E. to N.W. at intervals. Considerable ice movement from noon to 10pm with heavy pressures causing severe shocks to the ship. No gain in the leak is observed as a result of the shocks. Ship heeling 3° to starboard. Moon 24° 43' N. First quarter
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There was considerable ice movement during the day, and tremendous pressure. The ship received many severe shocks, but these did not seem to increase the leak. I am rather inclined to think that a broken piece of floe has been shoved under her, and that she has been lifted above some of the pressure. She has risen two inches above her old line of flotation, which we have determined by marks made where her snow embankment came originally.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w | 30.0 | — | -36.0 | -37.0 | — | bc |
| 2 | w | 29.99 | — | -35.5 | -37.0 | — | bc |
| 3 | w | 29.98 | — | -36.0 | -37.0 | — | b |
| 4 | w | 29.96 | — | -35.7 | -37.0 | — | b |
| 5 | wsw | 29.96 | — | -36.5 | -37.5 | — | bc |
| 6 | wsw | 29.95 | — | -36.5 | -37.5 | — | bc |
| 7 | wsw | 29.95 | — | -36.5 | -38.0 | — | bc |
| 8 | wsw | 29.95 | — | -36.5 | -38.0 | — | bc |
| 9 | wsw | 29.93 | — | -36.5 | -38.0 | — | bc |
| 10 | wsw | 29.93 | — | -35.5 | -36.0 | — | bc |
| 11 | wsw | 29.92 | — | -35.0 | -36.5 | — | bc |
| 12 | wsw | 29.93 | — | -34.5 | -35.5 | — | bc |
| 13 | w | 29.93 | — | -36.5 | -33.3 | -34.3 | bcz |
| 14 | wxn | 29.95 | — | -35.5 | -32.5 | -33.5 | bcz |
| 15 | wxn | 29.96 | — | -34.5 | -31.5 | -32.5 | bczs |
| 16 | wxn | 29.97 | — | -34.0 | -31.0 | -32.0 | bcz |
| 17 | wxn | 29.98 | — | -34.5 | -31.5 | -32.5 | bczs |
| 18 | wxn | 29.99 | — | -34.5 | -31.5 | -32.5 | bczs |
| 19 | wxn | 30.0 | — | -34.8 | -31.8 | -33.0 | bczs |
| 20 | w | 30.01 | — | -34.5 | -31.5 | -32.7 | bczs |
| 21 | w | 30.02 | — | -35.5 | -32.3 | -33.5 | bcz |
| 22 | w | 30.03 | — | -35.5 | -32.3 | -33.5 | bczs |
| 23 | wsw | 30.04 | — | -36.5 | -33.5 | -34.5 | bcz |
| 24 | w | 30.05 | — | -36.5 | -33.5 | -34.5 | bcz |
