Entry Index: 490
Position: No position
Date by Position: 27 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: 290 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 47 tons 248 lbs Max. temperature = 1° Min. temperature = -6° 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 32 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to south being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally dull and gloomy. Light northerly breezes until noon, and a steadily freshening N.W. breeze thereafter to midnight. Steadily rising barometer and increasing temperature. A 9am an opening in the ice about 6 feet in width was discovered about 500 yards from the ships port side. At 11.30am the ship was considerably jarred by some movement in the underlying or surrounding ice, though no cause could be found for it in the appearance of things outside. Moon 7° N. Last quarter
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This morning at daylight a crack or lane six feet in width was discovered on our port beam, about five hundred yards distant. It extended to and joined with what was an open lane an eighth of a mile astern of the ship. (This last-named lane has remained closed or frozen over for nearly three months until a few days ago, when numerous cracks appeared in it, extending lengthwise, or, roughly, northeast and southwest. These cracks opened on Sunday to a width in some places of eight feet, and to-day they are again closed, a ridge of broken blocks four feet in height marking where the union was made.) At 11.30 a.m. the ship received a considerable jar, causing the lamp-chimneys and shades to rattle and ring. Most of us were on the ice at the time, and there it was unnoticed by all seemingly excepting myself. I detected an earthquaky movement or two which seemed like a lift and a shove. This, however, is merely a beginning. Next month, if it is anything like last year, will be full of events.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nxe | 30.16 | 44.0 | -3.3 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | nxw | 30.16 | 40.0 | -1.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 9 | nwxn | 30.24 | 46.0 | -2.2 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | nnw | 30.28 | 41.0 | -4.0 | — | — | oc |
| 15 | nw | 30.34 | 53.0 | -2.5 | — | — | ocf |
| 18 | nw | 30.38 | 54.0 | -2.2 | — | — | oc |
| 21 | nw | 30.43 | 53.0 | 0.0 | — | — | oc |
| 24 | nw | 30.45 | 47.0 | 0.2 | — | — | oc |
