Entry Index: 421
Position: No position
Date by Position: 19 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 218 lbs Max. temperature = 34.5° Min. temperature = 31.5° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. Sounded in 40 fathoms. Mud and fine sand, a drift to S.E. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. A bear 6 feet 6 1/2 inches long and 4 feet 7 inches in girth was shot about two miles east of the ship and brought aboard. Weather cloudy and gloomy with very light northerly airs, slowly rising barometer and uniform temperature. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 35.5° - Specific gravity = 1.003 at 45° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0245 at 44.5° 39 fathoms = 30° x - Specific gravity = 1.0264 at 44.5° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 7° S. Full moon
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | n | 29.81 | 49.0 | 32.0 | — | — | ocf |
6 | nnw | 29.81 | 48.0 | 32.0 | — | — | ocm |
9 | nnw | 29.83 | 49.0 | 33.0 | — | 35.5 | oc |
12 | nnw | 29.84 | 49.0 | 33.0 | — | — | oc |
15 | nnw | 29.85 | 50.0 | 33.0 | — | — | oc |
18 | nnw | 29.86 | 49.0 | 32.5 | — | — | oc |
21 | nnw | 29.89 | 49.0 | 32.5 | — | — | oc |
24 | nxw | 29.9 | 49.0 | 32.0 | — | — | oc |