Entry Index: 259
Position: No position
Date by Position: 10 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: 345 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 74 tons 848 lbs 1pm: B.B. in vacuo = 45° The forward spar deck bilge pump is worked by the Baxter engine, and the main engine bilge pump by the steam cutter's boiler. Distilling water. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 10 inches 10 inches 15 inches At fire room bilge 3 inches 1/2 inch 3 inches Sounded at noon in 30 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift indicated by the lead line. Ice formed 4 inches in thickness over sounding hole since yesterday. Early daylight at 3am. Weather cloudy at times, at other times bright and pleasant. Light variable winds with slowly rising barometer. Rising temperature from midnight to noon, and falling temperature from noon to midnight. A long lead of open water about 1 1/2 miles to S'd of ship from which much vapor arose during the afternoon. Direction of the opening, from E. to S.W. A faint gleam of sunlight was visible in northern horizon at 1 and 2am, and at 4 a ruddy tint was to be seen on horizon to N.N.E. Crew engaged during the day in digging a trench along the starboard side of the ship. A seal was shot and brought on board. At 1am faint arch extending from W.N.W. to N.E. 20° in altitude to N.; at 2 faint arch 30° in altitude to N. brightest in west, the same continuing at 3. At 4 faint auroral gleam in west. At 9pm low flat arch 5° in altitude to N., at 11 irregular curtain arch 15° in altitude to N. extending from N.E. to W.N.W. with streamers toward zenith from eastern end. Moon 3° 14' N. New moon
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A long lead of open water is seen about one and a half miles to southward, running in a curve from E. to S.W. Vapor rises from this opening during the afternoon until five o'clock, when ice having formed over it, the escape of the heat from the water is prevented and the vapor ceases. As long as daylight lasted the place of the opening lay like a black band stretched out on the white surface of the ice-field. By to-morrow, no doubt, the salt will have become squeezed to the surface, covering it entirely, and making its appearance more like that of the surrounding floe.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exs | 29.82 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 2 | e | 29.82 | — | -30.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 3 | e | 29.81 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | e | 29.82 | — | -31.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 5 | ese | 29.83 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | exs | 29.83 | — | -31.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | exs | 29.83 | — | -31.0 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | exs | 29.85 | — | -27.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | exs | 29.82 | — | -23.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | calm | 29.84 | — | -21.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 11 | nnw | 29.82 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 12 | nnw | 29.81 | — | -21.0 | — | 27.0 | bcz |
| 13 | nnw | 29.8 | — | -20.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | nwxn | 29.81 | — | -18.5 | — | — | bczs |
| 15 | nne | 29.83 | — | -17.0 | — | — | bczs |
| 16 | west | 29.84 | — | -19.5 | — | — | bczs |
| 17 | west | 29.86 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bczs |
| 18 | west | 29.87 | — | -20.5 | — | — | bczs |
| 19 | wnw | 29.88 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | wnw | 29.91 | — | -24.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | wnw | 29.93 | — | -25.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | wnw | 29.94 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | n | 29.95 | — | -27.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | nw | 29.95 | — | -28.5 | — | — | bcz |
