Entry Index: 457
Position: No position
Date by Position: 24 September 1880
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
No observations 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: 51 tons 738 lbs Max. temperature = 20.5° Min. temperature = 8.5° The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters through and under the bulkhead aft into the fire room is pumped out by hand at the bilge pump attached to the main engine. The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling. Sounded in 38 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to W.N.W. being indicated by the lead line. The weather is foggy all day except for a short time at the beginning and ending of these twenty four hours when it is bright moonlight and starlight. Light easterly winds, backing with steadily falling barometer, and rising followed by falling temperature. At 3am faint auroral streamers in N.W. & S.E. At 9.45am the ice opened about 1/2 mile astern of the ship, the "lead" extending a short distance to the N.E. and S.W. Moon 24° N. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
9.45 a.m. the ice opened at the old place about a half mile astern of the ship, the lead extending a short distance northeast and south-west.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | e | 30.01 | 51.0 | 8.8 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | e | 29.97 | 48.0 | 10.5 | — | — | ocqf |
| 9 | ene | 29.99 | 50.0 | 12.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 12 | ene | 29.95 | 46.0 | 16.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 15 | ene | 29.94 | 48.0 | 19.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 18 | ene | 29.93 | 49.0 | 18.7 | — | — | ocf |
| 21 | nexe | 29.92 | 54.0 | 16.7 | — | — | ocf |
| 24 | nexn | 29.89 | 53.0 | 10.5 | — | — | bc |
