Entry Index: 301
Position: No position
Date by Position: 21 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: 435 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 65 tons 2013 lbs Maximum temperature indicated by B.B. in vacuo = 105.5° between 2 and 3pm The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and aft by the steam cutters engine driving the main engine bilge pump. 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 7 inches 7 inches 7 inches At fire room bilge 1 1/2 inches 3 inches 1 inch Sounded at noon in 33 fathoms, muddy bottom. A drift to north being indicated by the lead line. Ice 2 inches in thickness formed over sounding hole since noon yesterday. Sunrise obscured. Sunset at 9.34. A raven flying from the S'd lighted near the ship and then proceeded to the N.W. Much water sky visible during the day: from midnight to 4am in east, S.E., S.W. and W. x S.; at 1pm in S.W., and from 10pm to midnight around the entire quadrant between E. and south. Easterly and east-southerly winds continue during the day, commencing light, freshening toward noon and becoming light again toward midnight. Slightly falling barometer, and decreasing temperature. Moon 4° 20' S. First quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
We have seen so much water-sky around us that we have grown impatient at our imprisonment, and anxious to move on in some direction or other for a change.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | 29.77 | — | 15.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 2 | ese | 29.76 | — | 13.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 3 | sexe | 29.77 | — | 14.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 4 | ese | 29.77 | — | 12.3 | — | — | oczs |
| 5 | se | 29.77 | — | 12.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | se | 29.77 | — | 13.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 7 | e | 29.77 | — | 13.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 8 | e | 29.76 | — | 14.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 9 | exs | 29.76 | — | 13.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 10 | e | 29.74 | — | 14.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 11 | e | 29.73 | — | 16.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 12 | e | 29.72 | — | 16.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 13 | ese | 29.71 | — | 16.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 14 | sexe | 29.71 | — | 16.8 | — | — | bcs |
| 15 | sexe | 29.7 | — | 16.5 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | sexe | 29.7 | — | 17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | sexe | 29.7 | — | 16.0 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | ese | 29.7 | — | 13.5 | — | — | b |
| 19 | ese | 29.7 | — | 10.0 | — | — | b |
| 20 | e | 29.7 | — | 8.0 | — | — | b |
| 21 | e | 29.7 | — | 2.0 | — | — | b |
| 22 | e | 29.71 | — | 2.0 | — | — | b |
| 23 | e | 29.71 | — | 2.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 24 | e | 29.72 | — | -3.0 | — | — | bc |
