Entry Index: 432
Position: No position
Date by Position: 30 August 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
No observations Using melted ice Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 145 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 53 tons 1068 lbs Max. temperature = 34° Min. temperature = 26.5° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. Sounded in 37 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.N.W. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Weather generally foggy throughout the day, but clearing away toward 10pm rendering visible at midnight the Moon, Jupiter and Aldebaran above a line of fog. Light southerly and easterly breezes with slightly falling barometer and a very marked decrease in the temperature. Carpenters engaged in alterations to deck house and in repairing sleds. Small flocks of Phalaropes flying to S'd & W'd. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 34° - Specific gravity = 1.003 at 46° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0237 at 46° 36 fathoms = 31° x - Specific gravity = 1.0248 at 46° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 21° N. Last quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
Our little lakes and rivulets were covered with ice at midnight, and a white frost was deposited on all instruments at the observatory.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | sse | 30.03 | 50.0 | 33.0 | — | — | ocfm |
| 6 | e | 30.02 | 48.0 | 30.0 | — | — | bcf |
| 9 | se | 30.01 | 50.0 | 31.0 | — | 34.0 | ocm |
| 12 | sxe | 29.99 | 49.0 | 33.7 | — | — | oc |
| 15 | sexs | 29.97 | 50.0 | 33.5 | — | — | oc |
| 18 | se | 29.95 | 50.0 | 30.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 21 | se | 29.95 | 49.0 | 28.7 | — | — | ocfm |
| 24 | ese | 29.93 | 50.0 | 26.5 | — | — | bcf |
