Entry Index: 258
Position: No position
Date by Position: 9 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: 440 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 74 tons 1193 lbs The forward spar deck bilge pump is run by the Baxter engine and the after bilge is pumped by the main engine bilge pump driven by the steam cutters engine. Distilling water. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 8 inches 7 inches 7 inches At fire room bilge 0 inches 2 inches 2 1/2 inches Sounded at noon in 31 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Ice formed 4 1/2 inches in thickness over sounding hole since yesterday. Early dawn at 3am. Generally clear and pleasant weather with light northerly and easterly winds and falling to a calm at 9am. In the afternoon gradually freshening breezes from E.S.E. Rising barometer and increasing temperature. Very light snow between 4 and 7am. Crew engaged during forenoon and afternoon in digging a trench alongside the ship on the port side, in order to remove all ice to below the top of the doubling of the hull. Openings in the ice occurred during the afternoon about a mile to the E. and S.E. of the ship, and at midnight a slight shock was sustained as if from ice movement. At 1am faint arch in N. 25° in altitude extending from N.E. to W. x N. Faint gleam of sunlight in N. x W. (true). At 2 faint arch, which at 1.50 had been bright in N. at an altitude of 25°. Faint gleam of dawn in N. true. At 4 faint arch through zenith moving south. At 11pm faint arch at an altitude of 25° to N'd extending from N.E. to N.W., east end bending back to N. At midnight curtain arch 25° in altitude to N. extending from N.E. to W.N.W. Moon 2° 18' S. New moon
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Openings occurred in the ice during the afternoon about a mile to the E. and S.E. of the ship, from which large clouds of vapor arose. The time of new moon being at hand, I stood by for a possible emergency, but beyond a slight shock at midnight nothing occurred.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nne | 29.62 | — | -36.3 | — | — | bcz |
| 2 | nne | 29.62 | — | -35.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 3 | nxe | 29.62 | — | -34.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | nxe | 29.62 | — | -32.5 | — | — | bczs |
| 5 | ne | 29.63 | — | -31.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | ne | 29.63 | — | -31.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 7 | ne | 29.63 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 8 | ne | 29.63 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | ne | 29.64 | — | -28.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | calm | 29.66 | — | -27.5 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | calm | 29.67 | — | -23.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | — | 29.69 | — | -24.5 | — | — | bc |
| 13 | exs | 29.67 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bz |
| 14 | ese | 29.67 | — | -23.7 | — | — | bz |
| 15 | sexe | 29.68 | — | -25.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 16 | exs | 29.7 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | ese | 29.73 | — | -29.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | ese | 29.77 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | ese | 29.79 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 20 | ese | 29.81 | — | -29.0 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | ese | 29.82 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | ese | 29.83 | — | -27.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | ese | 29.84 | — | -28.2 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | ese | 29.84 | — | -29.5 | — | — | bcz |
