Entry Index: 275
Position: No position
Date by Position: 26 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: 70 tons 1993 lbs 1pm: B.B. in vacuo = 23.5°; B.B. in air = 3.5° 2pm: B.B. in vacuo = 20°; B.B. in air = 0.4° 3pm: B.B. in vacuo = 20°; B.B. in air = 5° 4pm: B.B. in vacuo = 17°; B.B. in air = 4.5° 5pm: B.B. in vacuo = 15.5°; B.B. in air = 4° 6pm: B.B. in vacuo = 6.5°; B.B. in air = 3° The pumping is done as usual by the Baxter engine and the steam cutters engine. The steam cutter's boiler is used also for distilling. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At water tight bulkhead 6 inches 12 inches 12 inches At fire room bilge 2 inches 2 inches 3 inches Sounded at noon in 30 fathoms. Muddy bottom. Strong drift to west indicated by the lead line. Ice 3 inches in thickness formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Stiff breezes from east and E.N.E. all day. Falling barometer to noon, followed by steady or slowly rising barometer to midnight. Rising temperature. Weather clear and pleasant until sunrise, and thereafter overcast and gloomy with much fog and fine driving snow. Indications of many ice-openings are around us. Much vapor rising therefrom. Dawn light to N'd at 1am. At 1am lunar circle with faint mock moons to right and left. Faint broken wave lines of aurora 20° in altitude to the N'd. Much deposit of frost on exposed surfaces. At 2, lunar circle with vertical beams from moon, and faint mock moons. At 5pm parhelion of 22° 30' radius. At 10pm a meteor fell in S.W. x W. Moon 12° 20' S. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
Ice three inches in thickness formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. ... We also had a thick fog for five or six hours in the middle of the day. Previous thereto the ice opened and clouds of vapor escaped, and then the opening must have been so extensive as to cause the fog.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | 30.04 | — | -12.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 2 | e | 30.0 | — | -13.8 | — | — | bcz |
| 3 | e | 29.96 | — | -12.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | ene | 29.91 | — | -11.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 5 | e | 29.89 | — | -11.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | e | 29.85 | — | -9.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 7 | e | 29.83 | — | -8.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 8 | e | 29.8 | — | -4.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 9 | ene | 29.77 | — | -2.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | ene | 29.74 | — | 0.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 11 | ene | 29.72 | — | 1.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 12 | ene | 29.69 | — | 2.0 | — | 28.0 | oczfs |
| 13 | e | 29.68 | — | 3.0 | — | — | oczfs |
| 14 | e | 29.67 | — | 3.5 | — | — | oczfs |
| 15 | — | 29.7 | — | 4.5 | — | — | oczfs |
| 16 | — | 29.71 | — | 4.3 | — | — | oczfs |
| 17 | — | 29.71 | — | 4.0 | — | — | bczfs |
| 18 | ene | 29.7 | — | 3.3 | — | — | bczfs |
| 19 | e | 29.7 | — | 3.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | e | 29.7 | — | 3.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | e | 29.69 | — | 4.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 22 | e | 29.7 | — | 4.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | e | 29.71 | — | 2.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | e | 29.71 | — | 3.0 | — | — | of |
