Entry Index: 399
Position: 72.99, no longitude
Date by Position: 29 July 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 72° 59' 8" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun no observation Using melted ice Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 110 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 55 tons 508 lbs The pumping is done, as required, by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. Sounded in 25 fathoms. Muddy bottom, a drift to E.N.E. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Weather generally gloomy and disagreeable. An almost steady fall of light snow all day, followed toward midnight by rain hail, and mist. Light S.W. breeze backing to S'd and S.S.E. during the afternoon and freshening to a moderate gale. A rapidly falling barometer and considerably increasing temperature accompanied the increase in wind velocities. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 34° - Specific gravity = 1.0005 at 38° 2 fathoms = 31.5° - Specific gravity = 1.021 at 37° 24 fathoms = 31° x - Specific gravity = 1.026 at 37° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 19° 35' N. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | swxw | 29.58 | — | 29.5 | — | — | ocs |
2 | swxw | 29.56 | — | 29.5 | — | — | bcs |
3 | swxw | 29.55 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
4 | swxw | 29.54 | — | 29.8 | — | — | bc |
5 | wsw | 29.53 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
6 | wsw | 29.53 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
7 | wsw | 29.52 | — | 30.5 | — | — | oc |
8 | swxw | 29.51 | — | 30.5 | — | — | oc |
9 | swxw | 29.51 | — | 31.0 | — | 34.0 | oc |
10 | swxs | 29.49 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
11 | swxs | 29.48 | — | 30.5 | — | — | oc |
12 | sxw | 29.46 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
13 | ssw | 29.43 | — | 30.0 | — | — | oc |
14 | ssw | 29.43 | — | 30.3 | — | — | bcs |
15 | sxw | 29.41 | — | 30.0 | — | — | ocs |
16 | sxw | 29.4 | — | 30.5 | — | — | oc |
17 | sxe | 29.38 | — | 31.0 | — | — | ocs |
18 | sse | 29.36 | — | 31.0 | — | — | ocs |
19 | s | 29.34 | — | 32.0 | — | — | ocs |
20 | s | 29.31 | — | 33.0 | — | — | oc |
21 | s | 29.28 | — | 33.0 | — | — | ocr |
22 | sxe | 29.26 | — | 33.0 | — | — | ocr |
23 | sse | 29.23 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ochr |
24 | sse | 29.21 | — | 34.0 | — | — | ocm |