Entry Index: 583
Position: No position
Date by Position: 29 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: 33 tons 1528 lbs Max. temperature = -2° Min. temperature = -25.5° 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 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A moderate drift to S.S.E. being indicated by the lead line. The day commences with light S.E. airs which increase to light E. and E.N.E. breezes, and they continue until 2pm when the wind steadily and slowly backs to W.N.W. and freshens considerably; a falling barometer changing to a rising barometer, and an increasing temperature changing to a rapidly falling one, in remarkable correspondence with the shifts of wind. At midnight there were auroral streaks in all directions at a general altitude of 10° above the horizon. Moon 17° S. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | se | 30.53 | 62.0 | -21.5 | — | — | bcz |
6 | exn | 30.39 | 51.0 | -13.5 | — | — | ocs |
9 | e | 30.33 | 54.0 | -6.0 | — | — | oc |
12 | ene | 30.28 | 44.0 | -2.0 | — | — | oc |
15 | wnw | 30.31 | 49.0 | -5.0 | — | — | oc |
18 | wnw | 30.42 | 56.0 | -9.5 | — | — | oc |
21 | wnw | 30.5 | 57.0 | -20.0 | — | — | b |
24 | wnw | 30.55 | 52.0 | -25.5 | — | — | bz |