Entry Index: 468
Position: No position
Date by Position: 5 October 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: 50 tons 168 lbs Max. temperature = 9.5° Min. temperature = -14° The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump and such water as filters aft, through and under the bulkhead, 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 30 fathoms. Muddy bottom and fine sand. No drift indicated by the lead line. At 6am the noise of ice grinding under pressure was heard to the eastward. At midnight an irregular curtain-arch appeared 30° in altitude to the northward and extending from E. to W. Weather bright and cloudless at the beginning and ending of the day. Light westerly airs veering to light N.N.W. breeze with nearly steady barometer and increasing temperature. Crew occupied throughout the day in breaking out from below and storing on deck a quantity of provisions in readiness for any emergency during the winter. Moon 19° S. New moon
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At six a.m. Chipp heard a grinding of ice to the eastward, and I suppose we shall have the satisfaction now of waiting for the repetition of the anxious times of last winter, not knowing how soon we may have pandemonium around us.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | w | 30.22 | 50.0 | -12.0 | — | — | b |
| 6 | wnw | 30.21 | 45.0 | -14.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | nw | 30.24 | 50.0 | -1.0 | — | — | bcf |
| 12 | nxw | 30.21 | 42.0 | 5.7 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | nnw | 30.25 | 49.0 | 6.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | nnw | 30.25 | 49.0 | 8.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 21 | nnw | 30.26 | 53.0 | 8.2 | — | — | oc |
| 24 | nnw | 30.28 | 52.0 | 5.0 | — | — | bz |
