Entry Index: 549
Position: No position
Date by Position: 25 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: 325 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 38 tons 1868 lbs Max. temperature = -11.5° Min. temperature = -7° 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 29 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to N.W. being indicated by the lead line. Light breezes from N'd veering to S.S.E. by noon, and thereafter variable and very light until midnight. Falling barometer and pleasant temperature. Low red dawn at 9am & bright starlight. At 9pm auroral streaks in N.W. radiating like a fan; at midnight an auroral arch extended from N.W. through zenith to S.E. Moon 14° S. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | nxe | 29.94 | 54.0 | -2.0 | — | — | ocz |
6 | nexe | 29.79 | 47.0 | 4.0 | — | — | bcz |
9 | ese | 29.74 | 48.0 | 9.0 | — | — | bc |
12 | sse | 29.79 | 44.0 | 6.0 | — | — | ocz |
15 | ssw | 29.8 | 51.0 | -2.0 | — | — | bcz |
18 | e | 29.82 | 54.0 | -5.5 | — | — | ocz |
21 | e | 29.8 | 57.0 | -2.0 | — | — | bcz |
24 | sse | 29.79 | 52.0 | -5.5 | — | — | bcz |