Entry Index: 359
Position: No position
Date by Position: 19 June 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: 220 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 57 tons 1668 lbs The pumping is done by the wind mill, and the distilling by the steam cutter's boiler. Water in the ship to day at 8am at 4pm at midnight At fire room bilge 5 inches 5 inches 5 inches Sounded at noon in 21 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to east being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Crew engaged in painting starboard side of ship, boats and iron work. Weather cloudy and disagreeable in the middle of the day, fairly clear and pleasant at other times. Fresh southerly and westerly, succeeded by fresh westerly and north-westerly winds, low barometer and generally uniform temperature. Moon 20° S. First quarter
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Water-sky in abundance indicates some ponds, if no larger opening; though as they change positions daily, no very considerable opening can have occurred. In our immediate vicinity where the water pumped from the ship froze over the old ice, the crust is thawing and forming ponds. This makes our walking uncertain, for without warning one is apt to break through and be in water over his knees. As all around the ship ashes and refuse have been spread, presenting a black surface, the ice underneath rapidly melts, and by the careful attentions of Melville, Dunbar, and the doctor, the resulting water is led by canals to the ditch, where, by its warmth, say 30°, it honey-combs the heavier ice beneath. By the wasting of the ice the ship is more uncovered, and within a day or two we have noticed that she has come up, "cradle and all," about four inches, as indicated by the falling of the water-level on her doubling.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ssw | 29.53 | — | 29.7 | — | — | bc |
| 2 | swxs | 29.5 | — | 30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 3 | ssw | 29.46 | — | 31.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 4 | ssw | 29.42 | — | 31.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 5 | ssw | 29.41 | — | 32.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | ssw | 29.39 | — | 33.5 | — | — | bc |
| 7 | swxs | 29.36 | — | 33.0 | — | — | bc |
| 8 | swxs | 29.34 | — | 33.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | swxs | 29.33 | — | 34.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | sw | 29.31 | — | 34.0 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | w | 29.31 | — | 34.0 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | w | 29.31 | — | 33.5 | — | 29.5 | ocr |
| 13 | w | 29.29 | — | 33.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 14 | nwxw | 29.31 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | nwxw | 29.32 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 16 | nwxw | 29.33 | — | 33.2 | — | — | oczr |
| 17 | nw | 29.35 | — | 32.8 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nwxw | 29.36 | — | 32.5 | — | — | bc |
| 19 | nwxw | 29.37 | — | 32.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 20 | nwxw | 29.38 | — | 31.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 21 | nwxw | 29.38 | — | 31.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 22 | nwxw | 29.38 | — | 31.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 23 | wxn | 29.37 | — | 31.2 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | wxn | 29.37 | — | 31.5 | — | — | bc |
