Entry Index: 580
Position: No position
Date by Position: 26 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: 325 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 34 tons 423 lbs Max. temperature = -4.5° Min. temperature = -36° 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 32 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A very rapid drift to W.S.W. being indicated by the lead line. E.N.E. wind increasing to fresh gale driving clouds of snow from the surface of the ice and banking them up against and on board of the ship. Rapidly falling barometer and steadily increasing temperature. Toward midnight the wind abated somewhat and there were frequent lulls. Moon 24° S. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ene | 30.88 | 45.0 | -33.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | ene | 30.73 | 38.0 | -28.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 9 | ene | 30.68 | 44.0 | -25.5 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | ene | 30.59 | 41.0 | -22.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | ene | 30.48 | 47.0 | -16.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 18 | ene | 30.35 | 47.0 | -11.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 21 | ene | 30.3 | 50.0 | -8.5 | — | — | ocz |
| 24 | ene | 30.23 | 48.0 | -4.5 | — | — | ocz |