Entry Index: 584
Position: No position
Date by Position: 30 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 1238 lbs Max. temperature = -14.5° Min. temperature = -30° 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 fathoms. Muddy bottom. No drift being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally bright and pleasant during the forenoon, dull and gloomy during the afternoon. Light N.W. breezes veering to E.N.E. and freshening, with uniformly high barometer and slowly rising temperature. At 6pm sounds were heard of grinding and moving ice in the N.E. At midnight auroral patch in E.N.E. Moon 12° S. New moon
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | wnw | 30.57 | 49.0 | -28.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | wnw | 30.6 | 45.0 | -29.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | nnw | 30.63 | 51.0 | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | ne | 30.63 | 40.0 | -25.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | nexe | 30.63 | 56.0 | -20.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nexe | 30.63 | 57.0 | -19.5 | — | — | oc |
| 21 | ene | 30.6 | 59.0 | -17.0 | — | — | oc |
| 24 | ene | 30.54 | 54.0 | -14.5 | — | — | oc |