Entry Index: 230
Position: No position
Date by Position: 10 February 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: 1345 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 82 tons 189 lbs Upon getting down to the gate in the water tight bulkhead they are found quite closed, and no leak is apparent through them. There must therefore be some leak through between the frame and the outside planking which of course we cannot get at and therefore cannot remedy. By running the Sewell pump in the engine room sometimes five minutes every hour and sometimes ten minutes every hour the water is held in check in the fire room bilge. The Baxter boiler is kept with steam, running the forward spar deck bilge pump on starboard side as fast as the water accumulates forward of the water tight bulkhead. This pump is kept running almost steadily. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At step of fore mast 1 inch 1 inch 1 inch At auxiliary pump suction (after port flour room) 13 inches 12 inches At after part fore hold (water tight bulkhead) 18 inches 17 inches At fire room bilge 15 inches 8 1/4 inches 7 inches Engineer's force engaged in fitting attachments to for running bilge pump of main engine by means of steam cutters engine and boiler. Sounded at noon in 30 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No indicated drift. The day opened and continued clear and pleasant with light variable airs and calms. Barometer falling, temperature slightly increasing. "North side of Wrangell Land" visible on same bearings as recorded yesterday. Early daylight at 5.23am. Sun on rising was on the horizon at 9am, and his upper limb was disappearing below the horizon at 3pm. At 1am a broken auroral arch 20° in altitude to N. extending from N.E. to W.N.W.; at 2am a brilliant irregular arch 20° in alt to N'd and extending from W. to N.E. had masses of light passing across it from W. to N.E. The eastern end of the arch terminated in a spiral; at 3 radiating gleams of aurora from N.E. and W. with patches of same in N. and at 4 then was an auroral segment in N.W. At 8pm a meteor with a tail swept across the sky toward the N. At 9 diffused auroral light extending around the horizon 5° above it and reaching to the zenith. Sounds of ice moving to the N.E. Moon 5° 52' S. New moon
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ne | 29.85 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | ne | 29.84 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | ne | 29.83 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | ne | 29.82 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | ne | 29.82 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | ne | 29.81 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | ne | 29.79 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | ene | 29.76 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | e | 29.73 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bz |
| 10 | exn | 29.71 | — | -44.0 | — | — | b |
| 11 | exn | 29.71 | — | -42.7 | — | — | b |
| 12 | exn | 29.71 | — | -39.7 | — | 27.0 | b |
| 13 | calm | 29.71 | — | -40.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | calm | 29.72 | — | -42.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | calm | 29.72 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | calm | 29.72 | — | -44.2 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | calm | 29.72 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | calm | 29.72 | — | -42.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | calm | 29.71 | — | -43.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | calm | 29.69 | — | -41.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | calm | 29.67 | — | -41.3 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | calm | 29.65 | — | -41.0 | — | — | bz |
| 23 | sw | 29.64 | — | -41.0 | — | — | bz |
| 24 | sw | 29.62 | — | -42.0 | — | — | bz |