Entry Index: 417
Position: No position
Date by Position: 15 August 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
No observations Using melted ice Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 110 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 54 tons 658 lbs Max. temperature = 34° Min. temperature = 31.5° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. Sounded in 39 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.E. x N. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. At 10am Commanding Officer inspected the ship, after which divine service was performed in the cabin. Thick foggy weather. Light northerly and easterly airs with steady barometer and uniform temperature. Passing rain showers between 10 and 11pm. Very heavy water sky to southward at midnight. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 35.5° - Specific gravity = 1.003 at 45° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0242 at 44.5° 38 1/2 fathoms = 31° x - Specific gravity = 1.0250 at 44.5° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 23° S. First quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
Our mild weather continues, and so does the fog. It is surprising to see how this latter cuts away the ice. The full sun of June 21st did not do half the execution that to-day's fog accomplished. The ice seems actually to be rotting away. The surface is soft and spongy, and fully honey-combed; and but for the fact that there remains ice varying in thickness from two to twenty feet, there is no reason why we should not resume our voyage. The ship is still held affectionately by ice gripping her nearly down to her keel, and by its attempt to rise, heeling her over 7 1/2° to starboard. Here and there on either beam, holes varying in size from one to six feet extend down through the ice, and at a distance of one half mile on the starboard beam, and one mile on the port beam, there is a narrow lane of water (starboard with a W. wind, port with an E. wind, neither with any other), which serves to make our immediate vicinity an island; so that if we could get to this lane we might have the pleasure of sailing around a circle, were we not meanwhile crushed by the ice coming together, for beyond the lane in any direction is ice of the cheerful and consoling thickness of twenty to forty feet. ... At midnight a remarkably heavy water-sky showed itself to the southward.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nne | 29.91 | 54.0 | 32.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 6 | n | 29.9 | 54.0 | 32.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 9 | n | 29.9 | 53.0 | 33.0 | — | 35.5 | ocf |
| 12 | n | 29.89 | 53.0 | 33.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 15 | nne | 29.88 | 53.0 | 33.0 | — | — | bcf |
| 18 | ene | 29.87 | 52.0 | 33.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 21 | ene | 29.87 | 52.0 | 33.0 | — | — | oc |
| 24 | e | 29.87 | 52.0 | 33.2 | — | — | oc |
