Entry Index: 510
Position: No position
Date by Position: 17 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: 44 tons 953 lbs Max. temperature = -10.5° Min. temperature = -30° 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 27 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A drift to N.E. being indicated by the lead line. Weather clear, bright and pleasant until 3pm after which time the sky rapidly became cloudy. Light southerly airs until the barometer had reached its highest point, when the wind backed to the E'd. After 9pm rapidly freshening breezes with as rapidly falling barometer and suddenly increasing temperature. At 3pm sounds of grinding ice ahead and astern. At 3pm lunar halo showing prismatic colors, and at midnight lunar circle showing in diameter 20°. Moon 23° N. Full moon
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Sounds of grinding ice were heard from ahead and astern at three p.m., but nothing remarkable occurred, and we must wait to see what to-morrow will bring forth.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | sw | 30.98 | 43.0 | -29.0 | — | — | bz |
| 6 | s | 31.0 | 36.0 | -29.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | s | 31.08 | 47.0 | -29.3 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | s | 31.06 | 33.0 | -29.5 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | sexe | 31.05 | 44.0 | -30.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | e | 31.03 | 47.0 | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | ene | 31.0 | 48.0 | -21.7 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | exn | 30.9 | 49.0 | -12.0 | — | — | bcz |
