Entry Index: 236
Position: No position
Date by Position: 16 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: 530 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 79 tons 1788 lbs The forward spar deck bilge pump is kept running all day in connection with the Baxter engine, while the main engine bilge pump is kept running by the steam cutters engine fifteen minutes every hour, and the remainder of the time the steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling water for drinking and cooking. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 10 inches 14 inches 5 inches At fire room bilge 6 inches 4 inches 0 inches Crew engaged in storing provisions from deck down in after coal bunker. Sounded at noon in 31 fathoms, muddy bottom. An indicated drift to N.N.W. The ship received frequent shocks from ice pressure between midnight and 4am. Early daylight at 5am. An opening in the ice was discovered at noon about 1/2 mile to the N'd. Ice formed 6 inches in thickness over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Succeeded partially in stopping the dripping and running of water on the berth deck. At 1am lunar halo 2° in diameter, which at 2 showed prismatic colors; at 4 an auroral arch 45° in altitude extending from W. to N.E.; at 5 a broken aurora from E. to W. through zenith, with patches of light to N. and N.W. At 2 and 4pm much vapor arose from the ice all around the horizons. At 8pm faint arch 15° in altitude in N. x E. extending from N.E. to N.N.W.; at 9 a bright arch 25° in alt to N. extending from E.N.E. to W.N.W., with a curtain in N.E. and streamers through zenith. Pulsations of light from W. to E.; at 10pm double arch 30° in altitude with loop at N.E. end; also faint arch at 70° alt in N.; at 11 the before mentioned loop had become a spiral. At midnight faint broken arch 50° in alt to N. Weather generally hazy and pleasant. northerly winds veering to E.S.E. at end of day, with rising barometer and slightly increasing temperature as the wind veers to the S'd of east. Moon 22° N. New moon
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Between midnight and four p.m. we received several severe shocks from ice pressure. When the walking parties went out at noon they discovered, about half a mile to the northward of the ship, a long lane of water.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n | 29.56 | — | -43.5 | — | — | bczq |
| 2 | n | 29.56 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bczq |
| 3 | n | 29.58 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bczq |
| 4 | n | 29.6 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bczq |
| 5 | n | 29.62 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | n | 29.63 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | nxw | 29.66 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | nnw | 29.7 | — | -47.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | nwxn | 29.72 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | n | 29.75 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | nxw | 29.76 | — | -47.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | nxe | 29.78 | — | -46.0 | — | 27.0 | bz |
| 13 | nne | 29.79 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bz |
| 14 | ne | 29.79 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bz |
| 15 | exn | 29.8 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bz |
| 16 | e | 29.81 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | e | 29.82 | — | -46.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | ne | 29.84 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | e | 29.86 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bz |
| 20 | e | 29.86 | — | -44.7 | — | — | bz |
| 21 | e | 29.86 | — | -43.0 | — | — | bz |
| 22 | exs | 29.87 | — | -41.4 | — | — | bz |
| 23 | ese | 29.85 | — | -40.5 | — | — | bz |
| 24 | ese | 29.84 | — | -40.0 | — | — | bz |
