Entry Index: 216
Position: No position
Date by Position: 27 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: 1960 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 89 tons 1977 lbs The day begins clear and pleasant, with light moonlight and starlight and a light air from E. x S. Between 1 and 2am it falls calm, and a light air from W. x N. succeeds. Thence throughout the remainder of the twenty four hours light breezes from between W. x N. and W.S.W. Barometer falling until 4pm slowly, and then as slowly rising until midnight. Irregular temperature. Weather generally overcast and cloudy after 8am. At 2 and 3 am and at 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11pm the ice was in motion near the ship to the S'd & W'd, communicating pressure to the floe by which the ship is surrounded and nipping the vessel at times severely. No change in the amount of leak is observed as a result of these nips, the strain seeming to be exerted on the quarters. The work of stuffing oakum, plaster of Paris &c in the spaces between frames, and in spaces between frames and ceiling has been successful to the extent of materially diminishing the amount of water flowing into the ship. The limber holes having become materially thawed out, the incoming water flowed aft so freely to the Sewell pump in the engine room that at the beginning of this day the auxiliary pump forward ceased to take water and was stopped. By keeping the Sewell pump going all the time the ship was kept free to the extent of holding the water in check. Calculation of the work done by the pump gives 2250 gallons per hour, which may be taken as the amount of the leak to day as against 3663 gallons per hour on the 23rd inst. 8am 4pm at midnight Water in fire room bilge 18 inches 20 inches 16 inches Work of filling up all spaces between frames &c is continued all day. Early daylight at 6.20am. Sounded at noon in 30 fathoms, muddy bottom. Indicated drift to N.W. true. Lunar halo 4° in diameter at 8pm, and 8° in diameter at 10pm. Very light snow at 5pm and midnight. Ship heeling 3° to starboard. Moon 11° 44' N. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At two and three a.m., and two, three, five, eight, nine, and eleven p.m., the ice was in motion, grinding and groaning to the S.W. and close to us. The ship was nipped on these occasions, and cracked and snapped loudly, all the pressure seeming to come abaft the main- mast. At the last nipping I was down in the fore peak looking at the leak, and had no knowledge of the ice being in motion, no sound either of motion or pressure having reached me. Upon coming aft Mr. Newcomb met me with the information that the ice had squeezed us hard. The cabin door keeps a good record of the squeezing, for at times it takes two of us to open it, although a good bit of it has been planed away.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exs | 30.16 | — | -32.5 | — | — | bc |
| 2 | wxn | 30.14 | — | -36.0 | — | — | bc |
| 3 | calm | 30.1 | — | -36.7 | — | — | bc |
| 4 | wxn | 30.08 | — | -37.0 | — | — | b |
| 5 | wxn | 30.09 | — | -37.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | wxn | 30.09 | — | -38.0 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | wxn | 30.08 | — | -39.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | wxn | 30.06 | — | -39.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxn | 30.05 | — | -38.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | wxn | 30.05 | — | -37.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 11 | wxn | 30.05 | — | -36.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | wxn | 30.05 | — | -34.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 13 | wxn | 30.02 | — | -34.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 14 | wxn | 30.02 | — | -33.2 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | wxn | 30.0 | — | -32.2 | — | — | ocz |
| 16 | wnw | 30.01 | — | -31.8 | — | — | ocz |
| 17 | wnw | 30.02 | — | -30.7 | — | — | oczs |
| 18 | wnw | 30.03 | — | -30.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 19 | wnw | 30.04 | — | -31.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 20 | wnw | 30.04 | — | -31.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | wxn | 30.04 | — | -32.7 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | wxn | 30.04 | — | -34.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | wsw | 30.04 | — | -35.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | wsw | 30.06 | — | -34.5 | — | — | oczs |
