Entry Index: 562
Position: No position
Date by Position: 8 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: 290 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 36 tons 1928 lbs Max. temperature = 5° Min. temperature = -4° 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 slight drift to S.W. being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally dull and gloomy. Light N.E. breeze, steady barometer, and pleasant temperature. Light flurries of snow from time to time. Moon 16° N. First quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The gale which we had some days ago, and which sent us spinning away to the northwest, played some curious freaks. It not only buried the ship to her rails, but it laid out the surface snow into long ridges sastrugi, which give our surrounding floe the appearance of a newly-plowed field. These ridges piled up in straight lines running to leeward and as hard as ice, and making walking difficult, lead me to many a tumble as I poke about with a lantern, reading thermometers, etc.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nexn | 30.01 | 49.0 | -4.0 | — | — | ocf |
| 6 | nne | 29.98 | 44.0 | -3.5 | — | — | bcm |
| 9 | nne | 29.99 | 52.0 | 0.5 | — | — | oc |
| 12 | nexn | 29.98 | 49.0 | 2.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 15 | ne | 30.0 | 54.0 | 4.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 18 | ne | 29.98 | 55.0 | 5.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 21 | nexn | 29.97 | 58.0 | 1.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 24 | nne | 29.97 | 59.0 | 3.0 | — | — | oczs |
