Entry Index: 496
Position: No position
Date by Position: 2 November 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: 46 tons 748 lbs Max. temperature = 10.5° 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 30 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.E. being indicated by the lead line. An opening occurred in the ice about 500 yards north of the ship extending a short distance to the eastward. The medical examination was continued and completed to day. Weather partially clear and pleasant at times, but frequently dull and gloomy with overcast sky and a slight fall of snow. Light S.W. airs veering to fresh N.E. breezes after noon, with falling barometer and pleasant temperature. At 6pm segment of spiral auroral curtain in the east extending toward the zenith. At 9pm auroral patches in the east, and a faint arch through zenith. At midnight flashes of pale green light from west toward zenith and irregular curtain patches between N.W. and north. Moon 21° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
With to-day we have a new moon, and in prompt accordance with our experience of last year a crack occurs in the ice about five hundred yards north of the ship, in some places six feet wide, and extending to the eastward for a short distance. Beyond an occasional shriek of newly made ice being moved a little, there is no trouble received from the opening.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | wsw | 30.37 | 45.0 | -4.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | sw | 30.31 | 42.0 | -3.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | s | 30.29 | 47.0 | 2.5 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | sw | 30.21 | 41.0 | 7.2 | — | — | ocfs |
| 15 | wxs | 30.16 | 44.0 | 10.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 18 | w | 30.17 | 53.0 | 2.0 | — | — | bczs |
| 21 | wnw | 30.18 | 56.0 | 2.0 | — | — | oczs |
| 24 | nwxw | 30.18 | 49.0 | 3.0 | — | — | bcz |
