Entry Index: 217
Position: No position
Date by Position: 28 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: 1770 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 89 tons 207 lbs The pumping today is all done by the Sewell pump in the engine room running about 50 strokes per minute, at which rate the water is prevented from gaining on us. The carpenters are engaged all day in filling up the spaces between frames &c and replacing ceiling over these spaces. Cut additional holes through ceiling above Berth deck to continue the filling in to and above the water line. 8am 4pm at midnight Water in fire room bilge 18 inches 17 1/2 inches 16 inches A slight ice movement in the S.W. near the ship at 6.15am and 6.40pm causing a moderate nip to the ship. In cutting away the newly formed ice in the hole cut in the floe for soundings at a distance of 150 yards from the ship, measured 8 inches as the result of 24 hours freezing. The ice has formed 24 inches in thickness since January 19th over spaces of water opened during the ice movement at that date. Sounded at noon in 29 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift to south (true) indicated. Early daylight at 6.40am. Sun not visible to day on account of cloudiness and haze. Slight westerly; backing to southerly winds. Falling barometer and rising temperature. Lunar halo 4° in diameter and showing prismatic colors visible between 2 and 6 am. Moon 6° 30' N. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The ice moved at 6.15 a.m., and 6.50 p.m., in the S.W. near the ship, and caused us to experience a moderate nip. Except from the snapping and cracking of our bolts and timbers, we are not disturbed. When soundings were taken to-day, new ice to the depth of eight inches had to be cut away, the result of twenty-four hours direct freezing. The floe, through which the hole was cut originally, had a thickness of twenty-four inches direct freezing since January 19th, for this was one of the water lanes opened in the smash up at that time.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swxw | 30.05 | — | -34.0 | — | — | bczs |
| 2 | swxw | 30.04 | — | -32.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 3 | swxw | 30.04 | — | -31.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | swxw | 30.03 | — | -30.2 | — | — | oczs |
| 5 | w | 30.03 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | w | 30.03 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | w | 30.03 | — | -31.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | w | 30.03 | — | -32.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxn | 30.0 | — | -32.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | wxn | 30.0 | — | -32.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | wxn | 30.0 | — | -30.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | wxn | 29.98 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 13 | wxn | 29.96 | — | -29.7 | — | — | bczs |
| 14 | wxn | 29.95 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | wxn | 29.95 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | w | 29.95 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | wxs | 29.93 | — | -29.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | wxs | 29.92 | — | -28.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | wsw | 29.9 | — | -26.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | swxw | 29.88 | — | -25.3 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | sw | 29.86 | — | -24.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | sw | 29.84 | — | -23.7 | — | — | bczs |
| 23 | ssw | 29.84 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | sxw | 29.82 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bcz |
