Entry Index: 283
Position: No position
Date by Position: 3 April 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: 69 tons 118 lbs 4am: B.B. in vacuo = 3.5°; B.B. in air = 3° 5am: B.B. in vacuo = 3.5°; B.B. in air = 2° 6am: B.B. in vacuo = 5°; B.B. in air = 1° 7am: B.B. in vacuo = 8.5°; B.B. in air = 2° 8am: B.B. in vacuo = 10°; B.B. in air = 1.7° 9am: B.B. in vacuo =16°; B.B. in air = 5° 10am: B.B. in vacuo = 21°; B.B. in air = 5° 11am: B.B. in vacuo = 20°; B.B. in air = 5° 12am: B.B. in vacuo = 24°; B.B. in air = 4° 1pm: B.B. in vacuo = 37°; B.B. in air = 2° 2pm: B.B. in vacuo = 25.5°; B.B. in air = 1° 3pm: B.B. in vacuo = 24.5°; B.B. in air = 1° 4pm: B.B. in vacuo = 15°; B.B. in air = -2° 5pm: B.B. in vacuo = 7°; B.B. in air = -3° 6pm: B.B. in vacuo = 1.5°; B.B. in air = -5° 7pm: B.B. in vacuo = -4°; B.B. in air = -6° The pumping is done 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 12 inches 7 inches 7 inches At fire room bilge 3 inches 2 inches 0 inches Sounded at noon in 33 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift being indicated by the lead line. Sky generally overcast and weather gloomy. Light snow falling about half the day. Fog prevailing until noon. Light southerly and westerly winds with slowly rising barometer and falling temperature. Sounds of ice in motion to S.E. of the ship at 1am. Crew engaged in restowing after store room. Engineer's force engaged in preparing new fittings for altered pump rig; and carpenters engaged in clearing shifted bilge pump in the corner of the fire room hatch. Moon 14° 8' S. Last quarter
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Mr. Dunbar, who seems to be regaining his old strength and endurance (although his gait is more like that of an old man than one of his years), took a long tramp with Alexey and Aniguin about seven miles S.E. from the ship. At that point he came to some very heavy ice, seemingly aground, as it had no motion, although with water around it. The extent of water may have been two hundred feet in length and fifty feet in width, narrowing to cracks at either end. For several days he and I had observed from aloft a long ridge of ice to the southward, and had made conjectures as to its being stranded on a reef or shoal; and since he has gone out there and thinks it looks much like it, he will on Monday make one more trip to sound. He says that while he stood on the floe edge looking at this ridge, everything being still, there commenced a trembling of the ice on which he stood, and a commotion in the water in front of him, when suddenly a large mass of ice as big as the after part of this ship cut off at the poop came up with a bound, and settled to its line of flotation. Being in some unaccountable manner liberated from the power that held it under the floe, it made its way naturally to the surface. ... The familiar grinding and groaning of ice in motion was heard at one a.m. Somehow or other, I cannot help anticipating a considerable disturbance at our next new moon on the 9th inst. Our sudden drift and recent high temperature indicate a loosening of the ice somewhere, and if we go toward the place we may become mixed with it.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swxw | 29.29 | — | 6.8 | — | — | oczsf |
| 2 | wxs | 29.29 | — | 5.3 | — | — | oczsf |
| 3 | w | 29.29 | — | 4.0 | — | — | oczsf |
| 4 | wxn | 29.29 | — | 3.0 | — | — | oczsf |
| 5 | wxs | 29.3 | — | 2.2 | — | — | oczsf |
| 6 | wsw | 29.3 | — | 1.0 | — | — | oczsf |
| 7 | — | 29.31 | — | 2.0 | — | — | ozcf |
| 8 | swxs | 29.32 | — | 1.5 | — | — | ozcf |
| 9 | — | 29.34 | — | 3.0 | — | — | ozcf |
| 10 | — | 29.4 | — | 3.5 | — | — | ozcf |
| 11 | sw | 29.38 | — | 4.0 | — | — | ozcf |
| 12 | swxw | 29.4 | — | 3.0 | — | 28.0 | ocz |
| 13 | wsw | 29.37 | — | 1.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 14 | wxs | 29.38 | — | 0.8 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | — | 29.41 | — | -0.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 16 | w | 29.42 | — | -2.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 17 | w | 29.42 | — | -2.8 | — | — | ocz |
| 18 | wxs | 29.45 | — | -4.7 | — | — | ocz |
| 19 | wsw | 29.47 | — | -6.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 20 | — | 29.49 | — | -8.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | — | 29.5 | — | -10.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | — | 29.51 | — | -13.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 23 | swxw | 29.51 | — | -13.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | swxw | 29.51 | — | -13.5 | — | — | bcz |
