Entry Index: 435
Position: No position
Date by Position: 2 September 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: 53 tons 738 lbs Max. temperature = 33° Min. temperature = 26.5° 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. indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Sky generally overcast during the day. A fog prevailing during the forenoon and snow falling in the afternoon. Carpenters engaged in work on the deck house and in repairing sleds. Engineer's force occupied in shifting coal from starboard to port. The surface of the ponds in our neighborhood remains covered with new ice about an inch in thickness. The lead extending across the bows about 1 mile ahead of the ship is open for a width of about 100 yards. Numerous small flocks of birds (Phalaropes?) coming from N.E. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 35° - Specific gravity = 1.0025 at 44° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0238 at 44° 38 1/2 fathoms = 31° x - Specific gravity = 1.0240 at 45° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 9° N. Last quarter
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The usual fog in the forenoon, and in the afternoon until midnight an almost steady fall of very light snow. In one day we seem to have jumped into winter. All our lakes and rivulets are covered with ice an inch in thickness, and that in turn being hidden by snow, the general view is as cold and cheerless as possible. While we had such mild temperatures, and the ice was in a soft and loose condition, how anxiously we hoped for a gale of wind to break upon us to give everything a good shaking up and, perhaps, release us from our fetters. But now that everything is beginning to freeze fast again our chances of liberation seem infinitesimally small. ... Mr. Collins on returning from the lead, about two miles ahead of the ship, reports that it is about one hundred yards in width.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | se | 29.75 | 465.0 | 31.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 6 | se | 29.71 | 455.0 | 32.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 9 | ese | 29.72 | 465.0 | 32.3 | — | 36.5 | ocfs |
| 12 | ssw | 29.71 | 465.0 | 30.3 | — | — | oc |
| 15 | s | 29.72 | 48.0 | 30.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 18 | ssw | 29.73 | 48.0 | 28.5 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | sxw | 29.75 | 49.0 | 28.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 24 | sxw | 29.76 | 48.0 | 27.5 | — | — | ocs |
