Entry Index: 561
Position: No position
Date by Position: 7 January 1881
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: 445 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 36 tons 2218 lbs Max. temperature = -6.5° Min. temperature = -27° 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 31 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift being indicated by the lead line. Weather at times dull and gloomy, and occasionally bright and pleasant. Light northerly airs, slowly falling barometer and rapidly increasing temperature. Light flurries of snow at 3 and 6pm. At 6am faint auroral arch from E.S.E. to N.W. at an altitude of 75° above N.E. horizon. Moon 12° N. First quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nxw | 30.18 | 51.0 | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | nxw | 30.14 | 45.0 | -27.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | nxw | 30.14 | 51.0 | -22.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 12 | nxw | 30.1 | 42.0 | -16.0 | — | — | ocz |
| 15 | nxw | 30.1 | 52.0 | -11.5 | — | — | oczs |
| 18 | n | 30.09 | 53.0 | -8.5 | — | — | bczs |
| 21 | n | 30.09 | 52.0 | -12.0 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | nxe | 30.07 | 53.0 | -6.5 | — | — | ocz |