Entry Index: 304
Position: No position
Date by Position: 24 April 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 400 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 65 tons 813 lbs Maximum temperature indicated by B.B. in vacuo = 84.5° between 11am and 12m 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 in 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 inch 4 inches 1 inch Sounded at noon in 37 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.N.W. being indicated by the lead line. A measure of the floe at the sounding hole gave 40 inches thickness. Weather gloomy, sky overcast and light snow falling nearly all day. Light winds from between E. and S. with rising barometer and pleasant temperature. Crew engaged in cleaning up generally about the ship. Much water sky, and vapor arising from ice openings, chiefly between E. and south. Moon 19° 48' S. Full moon
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A measurement of the thickness of the floe at the sounding hole gives forty inches; and as at the last measurement it gave forty-eight inches, a waste has occurred to just the extent of eight inches.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sse | 29.9 | — | 4.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 2 | sse | 29.9 | — | 4.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 3 | sxe | 29.9 | — | 4.3 | — | — | ocfz |
| 4 | se | 29.9 | — | 5.0 | — | — | ocfzs |
| 5 | e | 29.91 | — | 6.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | e | 29.91 | — | 7.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 7 | e | 29.92 | — | 8.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 8 | e | 29.93 | — | 10.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 9 | e | 29.95 | — | 11.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 10 | e | 29.96 | — | 14.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 11 | e | 29.96 | — | 17.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 12 | e | 29.97 | — | 18.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 13 | se | 29.96 | — | 18.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 14 | sexe | 29.98 | — | 20.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 15 | sxe | 29.99 | — | 19.8 | — | — | oczs |
| 16 | swxs | 30.0 | — | 15.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 17 | s | 30.01 | — | 14.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 18 | ssw | 30.02 | — | 13.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 19 | s | 30.02 | — | 13.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 20 | s | 30.03 | — | 11.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 21 | s | 30.05 | — | 11.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 22 | s | 30.05 | — | 11.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 23 | s | 30.07 | — | 11.7 | — | — | oczs |
| 24 | s | 30.1 | — | 11.0 | — | — | oczs |
