Entry Index: 434
Position: 73.78, no longitude
Date by Position: 1 September 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 46' 54" 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: 53 tons 848 lbs Max. temperature = 36.5° Min. temperature = 24° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pump. Sounded in 39 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.E. x N. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. At 9.25am the ship suddenly righted to an even keel and moved astern about two feet, settling until the water level was 8 feet 4 inches at the stem and at 13 feet 5 3/4 inches at the rudder-post. The stem being 16 inches clear of the groove in the floe against which it had been resting, it was supposed that the ship was afloat fore and aft; and an ice claw was carried out astern to the ice, and by an attached hawser it was attempted to haul the ship astern clear of the large masses of ice surrounding her bows. After parting one hawser and only turning the ship one point in azimuth without moving her otherwise, it was found that she was still held by the ice under her keel forward, a measuring rod striking hard ice at a depth of 7 feet 4 inches below the water level. A second and larger hawser was then got out and hove on with the capstan without effect. An ice saw was then employed to saw through a large piece of ice against the starboard bow, (and presumably extending below and under the keel) of a thickness of 11 feet. After sawing through 5 or 6 feet, the leak (which had been carefully watched from the first movement of the ship) was found to increase and all sawing and attempts to drag the ship astern were at once discontinued. The gate in the extra bulkhead in the fore peak had been closed promptly at 9.35am and the increase of water made its way aft among the frames between ceiling and planking and under flooring of the fore peak. The leak now requires 3200 strokes of the hand bilge pump per 24 hours against 1295 strokes on the 11th August. At 8pm the ship was on nearly an even keel with the water level at 8 feet 10 3/4 inches on the stem and 13 feet 4 1/2 inches on the rudder post. In the afternoon the carpenters were engaged at work on the deck house and in repairing sledges. Weather bright and pleasant during the forenoon but foggy during the afternoon. Light easterly and S.E. airs with steady barometer. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 35° - Specific gravity = 1.001 at 44° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0238 at 44° 38 fathoms = 31° x - Specific gravity = 1.0248 at 44° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 13° N. Last quarter
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At last we are on an even keel! This morning at 9.35 the ship suddenly righted, and moved astern about two feet. It was done very quietly and without shock, except to a dog who was on the gang- plank, and was suddenly tumbled, to his surprise, on to the ice below. Thin ice had formed around our free part to the thickness of nearly an inch, and the cracking and breaking of this film (?) was the only accompaniment to our movement. One or two large chunks of ice rose to the surface on the port side, and then all was still. By previous orders, at the first movement Sweetman ran down in the fore peak and closed the opening in the extra bulkhead built last January. We feared that on taking the water again our leak might largely increase, but we found for the time no difference. The water-level on the ship was at the height of eight feet four inches on the stem, and thirteen feet five and three fourths inches on the rudder-post. Believing that the ship was fairly afloat (her stem being sixteen inches from the groove in which it had been resting), we carried an ice-claw to the floe astern, placing it on our port quarter, and, attaching a hawser, tried heaving with the capstan. To our surprise, beyond swinging her bow a little to starboard, perhaps a point, the ship was immovable. Thinking the ice on either bow was holding her, we took the ice-claw in a line right astern, and hove again until we parted the hawser. Then we went to examining the ice around her bows. The groove in which her stem had rested was in plain sight, and a crack in that floe extended right ahead. Right against the bows on either side there was water, but on reaching down a measuring rod under the starboard cat-head Chipp found it strike on ice at a depth of seven feet four inches. Evidently, then, her keel and forefoot were yet held in a cradle. Desiring to get a little away from the heavy floe which had damaged us last winter, a larger hawser was got out right astern and hove on, but without effect. The ice-saw, worked by a rope from the fore yard, was then brought into play, and put down a hole which we found in the cradle-piece, which, with its other part eleven feet in thickness, we commenced to saw through six feet, dinner time came and we stopped. A careful watch had been kept of the leak, and it was now found that more water was coming in than formerly. I was anxious naturally to get the ship afloat properly, but of course I did not want to do so at the cost of materially increasing the leak while there was no chance to navigate her. Upon reflection, I concluded to leave well enough (or bad enough) alone, and accordingly all sawing and hauling was suspended.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | se | 29.77 | 47.0 | 25.5 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | e | 29.78 | 45.0 | 25.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | ese | 29.79 | 49.0 | 33.0 | — | 35.0 | bc |
| 12 | e | 29.78 | 46.0 | 35.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | sexs | 29.78 | 47.0 | 30.3 | — | — | ocf |
| 18 | sexs | 29.77 | 47.0 | 29.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 21 | sse | 29.78 | 48.0 | 28.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 24 | e | 29.77 | 48.0 | 30.5 | — | — | ocf |
