Entry Index: 451
Position: 73.53, -176.62
Date by Position: 18 September 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
Latitude by observation at noon Sun N. 73° 31' 45" Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations Sun W. 176° 37' 15" Variation of the compass by azimuth Sun observed at 3.30pm E. 22° 10' Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 255 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 52 tons 88 lbs Max. temperature = 22° Min. temperature = 3.7° The pumping is done as required by hand at the quarter deck bilge pumps. The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling. Sounded in 40 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift indicated by the lead line. Weather generally clear and pleasant. Fresh easterly wind at the beginning of the day, rapidly veering and growing light as the barometer quickly rises. Unusually low temperature. The "lead" extending across the bows at a distance of about 2 miles is opening during the forenoon. Moon 7° N. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
A cheerful little fall of temperature to 3.7° makes this day exceptionally disagreeable, and seems to make assurance doubly sure that we are frozen in for another winter. Not a vestige is left of the many little ponds and streams which such a short time ago might be seen in our neighborhood; on the contrary, what with snow-drifts, and the freezing over of all water, one could readily believe that water had never been here at all. ... The lead two miles ahead of the ship (southeast by south) is opening again, and, being visited by our hunting parties, two seals are brought in.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | exn | 29.44 | 50.0 | 18.7 | — | — | ocs |
| 6 | swxw | 29.43 | 47.0 | 21.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 9 | sw | 29.43 | 54.0 | 15.5 | — | — | bcf |
| 12 | swxw | 29.41 | 48.0 | 17.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | w | 29.42 | 52.0 | 17.7 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | w | 29.45 | 50.0 | 14.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 21 | w | 29.55 | 55.0 | 6.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | sw | 29.61 | 55.0 | 11.2 | — | — | oc |
