Entry Index: 244
Position: No position
Date by Position: 24 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: 605 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 77 tons 1793 lbs The forward spar deck bilge pump is kept running by the Baxter boiler at the rate of 40 strokes per minute, about one half the time; and the main engine bilge pump is run by the steam cutters engine and boiler about 15 minutes every hour, the remaining time being used in distilling. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 13 inches 11 inches 12 inches At fire room bilge 3 inches 5 inches 1 inches Sounded at noon in 33 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No indicated drift. 5 inches of ice formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Early daylight at 4.45. Shock from ice at 3.50am. Sound of ice movement at same time. At 4pm sighted Herald Island bearing S. (true). Bright pleasant weather. Westerly breezes until noon after which light variable airs, and calms. Rising barometer and uniformly low temperature. At 1am brilliant aurora, in the form of a broken arch to N'd 30° in altitude with a movement from E. to W. Prismatic colors exhibited with rapid darting streamers. It finally moved N. to 5° in alt and broke up into faint detached streaks. Moon 8° 18' N. Full moon
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A slight shock from the ice at 3.50 a.m. and a sound of ice in motion was heard at the same time. ... At ten this morning there was a great going on with the ice. The usual grinding and screaming broke out suddenly all around us, but at some little distance, say a quarter of a mile. No ice could be seen moving, but that there was motion somewhere was evident from the vapor that rose from openings in the floes. A very curious phenomenon in connection with this was that puffs of vapor would shoot up like smoke from an explosion, too distant to be heard, and follow along in a line of possible fracture. As soon as the puff had disappeared a regular haze would rise as if from open water. The commotion went on until eleven a.m., when it ceased as suddenly as it began. We did not experience any shock or jar, and as our period of suspense and standing by was a short one, we were not inclined to regard the movement as any "great shakes." ... When the ice excitement subsided this morning I went out to look for results, and I found that, although generally the floes had come together again, leaving only cracks to show where they had broken, there were a few openings six inches wide over which the ice had formed in an hour one half inch in thickness.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wsw | 29.86 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | wsw | 29.88 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | wsw | 29.89 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | wsw | 29.89 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | w | 29.91 | — | -45.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | w | 29.92 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | w | 29.93 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | wxs | 29.94 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | wxs | 30.01 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bz |
| 10 | wxs | 30.03 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bz |
| 11 | wxs | 30.05 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bz |
| 12 | wxs | 30.07 | — | -43.0 | — | 27.0 | bz |
| 13 | wxs | 30.08 | — | -42.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | calm | 30.07 | — | -43.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | se | 30.08 | — | -42.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | calm | 30.08 | — | -43.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | sexs | 30.09 | — | -44.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | ese | 30.1 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | ese | 30.12 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | ene | 30.13 | — | -44.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | nne | 30.16 | — | -46.0 | — | — | bc |
| 22 | ese | 30.14 | — | -45.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | exs | 30.14 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | exs | 30.14 | — | -46.5 | — | — | bc |
