Entry Index: 325
Position: 73.22, 178.88
Date by Position: 16 May 1880
Logbook Volume: 2 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 2
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 13' 3" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun E. 178° 52' 45" 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: 400 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 61 tons 1418 lbs Maximum B.B. in vacuo = 95.5° between 11am and noon The pumping and distilling are done by the Baxter engine and boiler. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At fire room bilge 9 inches 7 inches 7 inches Sounded at noon in 29 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to N.N.W. being indicated by the lead line. While visiting the bear traps Mr. Dunbar chased and shot a bear about a mile and a half from the ship and the carcass was sent for and brought in. Alternating cloudy and clear weather with easterly winds having greatest velocities in the middle of the day. Falling followed by rising barometer. Moon 13° N. New moon
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Going out S.E. a mile and a half we came to what had been an opening, but was now covered over with young ice. Following this to N.E. for a mile or so, we came to its end, and then striking to N.W. had some very heavy traveling until we struck a long lead of young ice, extending N.E. about three miles, where it ended at very old and very heavy ice. Leaving this we doubled back S.W. to the ship. One has need only to make such an excursion to be satisfied of the still greater perils we have escaped than those which we have endured. Where some of these floe edges have met and fought, rearing themselves fifteen and twenty feet in the air, no ship could survive.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exs | 30.26 | — | -5.0 | — | — | bc |
| 2 | e | 30.25 | — | -5.5 | — | — | bc |
| 3 | exn | 30.25 | — | -5.0 | — | — | bc |
| 4 | exn | 30.25 | — | -3.5 | — | — | bc |
| 5 | e | 30.26 | — | 1.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | e | 30.25 | — | 4.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | e | 30.24 | — | 7.0 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | ese | 30.24 | — | 9.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | ese | 30.23 | — | 11.0 | — | — | oc |
| 10 | ese | 30.23 | — | 12.0 | — | — | oc |
| 11 | ese | 30.21 | — | 13.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | ese | 30.22 | — | 12.5 | — | 28.5 | oc |
| 13 | e | 30.18 | — | 13.2 | — | — | ocz |
| 14 | e | 30.17 | — | 13.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | exs | 30.16 | — | 13.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 16 | e | 30.16 | — | 13.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 17 | e | 30.18 | — | 12.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | e | 30.19 | — | 11.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 19 | e | 30.21 | — | 10.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | e | 30.22 | — | 9.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 21 | e | 30.24 | — | 9.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 22 | e | 30.27 | — | 9.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 23 | e | 30.28 | — | 9.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 24 | e | 30.29 | — | 9.0 | — | — | ocz |
