Entry Index: 256
Position: No position
Date by Position: 7 March 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: 695 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 74 tons 2123 lbs The forward spar deck bilge pump is run by the Baxter engine, and the main engine bilge pump by the steam cutters engine. Distilling. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 15 inches 8 inches 15 inches At fire room bilge 3 1/2 inches 1 inch 1 inch Sounded at noon in 31 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Drift to E'd indicated by lead line. Ice 5 inches in thickness formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Early daylight at 3.10am. At 11am read the act for the better government of the Navy and mustered the crew, after which Commanding Officer inspected the ship. Divine service was performed in the cabin at 11.30am. Cloudy and dull weather. Stiff breezes freshening to moderate gale from the eastward. Falling barometer, and rising temperature until noon, after which temperature falls until midnight. Much vapor rising from the ice. At 1am auroral curtains all around the horizon and with streamers converging toward zenith. Faint arch to S'd 25° in altitude, and one to N'd 5° in altitude brightest curtain in west. At 2am aurora distributed over sky from an altitude of 10° in alt N. to 15° in altitude S. Bright curtains in N.E. and N.N.W. At 3 faint arch at altitude 15° to S'd with diffused light to near the zenith. Streamers in N.N.E. and W. about 10° above horizon shooting toward zenith. At 4 low faint arch 10° in altitude to S'd from E. to W. Streamers all around northern sky from 10° to 15° high. At 9pm faint aurora in N. At midnight faint arch 75° in altitude to N'd reaching from N.E. to W.N.W. Moon 13° S. Last quarter
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Cloudy and dull weather. We have had such a continuance of bright, clear, and almost cloudless weather that we resent a change. We are also having a moderate gale, another novelty, and are so spoiled in consequence as to be somewhat disgusted. The temperature, however, increases from minus 33° to minus 22° by noon, and falls only to minus 28° at midnight. S.E. winds have always raised our temperature. The ice has opened in consequence, for much vapor was observed to arise from it to- day.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ese | 29.99 | — | -33.0 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | exs | 29.98 | — | -33.5 | — | — | bz |
| 3 | exs | 29.97 | — | -33.5 | — | — | bz |
| 4 | e | 29.95 | — | -33.5 | — | — | bz |
| 5 | ese | 29.95 | — | -33.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | ese | 29.93 | — | -32.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 7 | exs | 29.91 | — | -32.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 8 | exs | 29.9 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | exs | 29.89 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 10 | exs | 29.9 | — | -24.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | exs | 29.88 | — | -24.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | exs | 29.86 | — | -24.0 | — | 27.0 | ocz |
| 13 | exs | 29.83 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | exs | 29.81 | — | -21.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | exs | 29.8 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | exs | 29.78 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | exs | 29.76 | — | -23.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | exn | 29.75 | — | -26.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 19 | ene | 29.75 | — | -27.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | ene | 29.74 | — | -28.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | ene | 29.73 | — | -29.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | ene | 29.72 | — | -29.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | ene | 29.7 | — | -28.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | ene | 29.68 | — | -28.0 | — | — | bcz |
