Entry Index: 439
Position: 73.68, -177.2
Date by Position: 6 September 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 41' 35" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun W. 177° 12' 15" Using melted ice Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 110 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 53 tons 398 lbs Max. temperature = 27° Min. temperature = 17° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pumps which are worked to prevent them freezing during the prevailing low temperature. Sounded in 37 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A very slight drift to S.E. being indicated by the lead line. Lowered and hauled the dredge. Moderate N.W. breezes backing to S.W. and growing light. Slightly falling followed a steady rising barometer. Sudden fall in temperature in the afternoon with a change of wind to S.W. Snow before noon, fog and snow after it. At 10am sounds of cracking and breaking of young ice were heard from the S.W., the ice to the N.E. of the ship and about 800 yards distant being in a state of motion about the same time. Carpenters engaged in putting up the deck house in its new place. Crew occupied in thrumming a spare topsail for possible use around the stem and under the fore-foot. Water temperatures and specific gravities Surface temperature = 34.5° - Specific gravity = 1.001 at 44° 2 fathoms = 31° - Specific gravity = 1.0242 at 44° 36 fathoms = 29° x - Specific gravity = 1.0262 at 44° x Miller-Casella No 24403 Moon 12° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At ten p.m. the effect of the changed wind was heard in the motion of the young ice to southwest, which split and cracked with the old familiar noise as the heavy ice got under way. Mr. Collins, on coming in from the lead to the northeast, reported the ice in motion about eight hundred yards from the ship. Our trouble may commence earlier this year than last, therefore.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nxw | 29.95 | 47.0 | 25.8 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | nxw | 29.96 | 46.0 | 24.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 9 | nnw | 30.0 | 47.0 | 24.6 | — | 34.5 | ocs |
| 12 | nwxn | 30.01 | 46.0 | 25.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 15 | w | 30.01 | 48.0 | 24.0 | — | — | bcfs |
| 18 | sw | 30.0 | 47.0 | 19.0 | — | — | bcf |
| 21 | ssw | 29.97 | 47.0 | 18.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | ssw | 29.93 | 46.0 | 22.2 | — | — | oc |
