Entry Index: 274
Position: No position
Date by Position: 25 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: 510 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 71 tons 263 lbs 1pm: B.B. in vacuo = 22.5°; B.B. in air = -3.5° 2pm: B.B. in vacuo = 16°; B.B. in air = -6.5° 3pm: B.B. in vacuo = 10.5°; B.B. in air = -6.5° 4pm: B.B. in vacuo = 2°; B.B. in air = -10° 5pm: B.B. in vacuo = -3.5°; B.B. in air = -11° 6pm: B.B. in vacuo = -9.5°; B.B. in air = -12° The pumping is done as usual by the Baxter engine and the steam cutters engine. The steam cutter's boiler is also used for distilling. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 9 inches 7 inches 9 inches At fire room bilge 3 inches 2 inches 3 inches Sounded at noon in 29 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Slight S.E. drift being indicated by the lead line. Ice formed 3 1/2 inches in thickness over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Weather clear and pleasant until 10am. From that time to 10pm the sky was overcast, and from noon to 6pm a thick fog prevailed. Many openings occurred in the ice between S.E. and S.W. indicated by large quantities of escaping vapor. Moisture deposited on all metal surfaces in a thick rime. Light westerly and south-westerly winds in forenoon, and light southerly and easterly winds in the afternoon. Rising barometer to noon, unsteadiness to midnight. Rapid rise in temperature in forenoon. Crew engaged in digging away the ice under the stern and counters. Upper part of propeller frame uncovered, and no sign of damage. At 1am ruddy dawn light to N'd. At 1.30 auroral curtain arch to the N'd 60° in altitude with pulsations moving from W. to E. At midnight a single brilliant auroral streamer extended from E. to W. through zenith, while faint arches 15°, 30° and 45° in altitude to the S'd starting from a point in the east, reunited at a point in the west. Moon 6° 44' S. Full moon
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Weather clear and pleasant until ten a.m., the wind prevailing from W.S.W. From ten a.m. to ten p.m. the sky was overcast, and from noon till six p.m. a thick fog surrounded us. Many openings occurred in the ice between S.E. and S.W. indicated by large quantities of escaping vapor, succeeded by a water-sky. I am inclined to think that much if not all of the water-skies we read about during winter, spring, and fall, instead of indicating water spaces at that moment indicate where open water has been. For, when openings occur at a time at which the temperature of the air is below that of the uncovered water, such masses of vapor are given off that the air is filled with them in their immediate locality. When the young ice forms on the surface, the escape of vapor ceases. The color of the new ice is dark green or dark blue until the efflorescence occurs, and it is this dark space reflected in the sky as in a mirror (in broad contrast to the dead whiteness of the reflected ice-field) that gives rise to the reports of extraordinary continuance of open water. ... Although the commotions in the ice at a distance have not affected our floe, it has undergone change from another cause. At different times this winter when we have had trouble close aboard, the pressures and upheavals have made our floe humpy and ridgy, in some places confused piles of ice standing five and six feet, and sometimes twenty feet in height.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wsw | 30.05 | — | -21.0 | — | — | b |
| 2 | wsw | 30.05 | — | -21.3 | — | — | bc |
| 3 | sw | 30.05 | — | -21.3 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | swxw | 30.04 | — | -22.0 | — | — | bc |
| 5 | sw | 30.06 | — | -22.5 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | sw | 30.06 | — | -21.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | sw | 30.07 | — | -20.0 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | sw | 30.08 | — | -18.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | sw | 30.1 | — | -16.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | sw | 30.11 | — | -13.0 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | sw | 30.11 | — | -10.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | sw | 30.12 | — | -9.5 | — | 28.0 | ocz |
| 13 | s | 30.12 | — | -7.3 | — | — | ocf |
| 14 | sexs | 30.12 | — | -6.7 | — | — | ocf |
| 15 | se | 30.13 | — | -8.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 16 | — | 30.14 | — | -10.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 17 | — | 30.14 | — | -11.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 18 | — | 30.15 | — | -11.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 19 | e | 30.14 | — | -12.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 20 | e | 30.13 | — | -11.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | e | 30.13 | — | -9.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | e | 30.13 | — | -7.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 23 | e | 30.1 | — | -9.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | e | 30.08 | — | -11.5 | — | — | bcz |
