Entry Index: 534
Position: No position
Date by Position: 11 December 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: 41 tons 98 lbs Max. temperature = -9° Min. temperature = -21.2° 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. A rapid drift to E. x N. being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally clear and pleasant. Fresh breezes from W.S.W., veering by midnight to W.N.W., the barometer then commencing to rise after a slight steady fall, and the temperature to decrease. At 3am auroral arch through zenith from N.W. to S.E.; at 6am streaks and patches of auroral light in all parts of the heavens; at 9pm faint arch 30° N. from N.W. to N.E., and a lunar circle 30° in diameter; and at midnight an auroral "loop" from N. to N.E. 45° in altitude. Moon 13° N. First quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | wxs | 29.72 | 51.0 | -11.0 | — | — | ocz |
6 | wxs | 29.68 | 47.0 | -16.5 | — | — | bc |
9 | wxs | 29.69 | 53.0 | -18.5 | — | — | bc |
12 | wsw | 29.67 | 42.0 | -21.0 | — | — | bc |
15 | swxw | 29.64 | 50.0 | -19.5 | — | — | bcz |
18 | swxw | 29.61 | 56.0 | -16.5 | — | — | bcz |
21 | wsw | 29.59 | 55.0 | -17.0 | — | — | bcz |
24 | wnw | 29.61 | 50.0 | -21.2 | — | — | bc |