Entry Index: 586
Position: No position
Date by Position: 1 February 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: 33 tons 623 lbs Max. temperature = 0.5° 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 32 3/4 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to N.W. being indicated by the lead line. Easterly gale moderating slowly to a strong wind from E.S.E. Steadily rising barometer and uniformly high temperature. Clouds of drifting snow during the day and a light snow falling at midnight. At noon a dark streak in the sky to the eastward indicated a strip of open water in that direction. The thickness of the ice is found to be 5 feet 4 inches, being the result of direct freezing since August 31st 1880. Provisions condemned during month 2 7/8 lbs vegetable soup - spoiled 6 lbs roast mutton - spoiled 4 1/4 lbs roast beef - spoiled Moon 30' S. New moon
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Ice found by actual measurement to be five feet four inches thick by direct freezing since August 31st, and a gain of ten inches in the past month. As all our measurements are made by boring in a protected place, no increase of thickness is due to snow-drift freezing on the surface. We get the actual growth, and naturally all increase is on the underside. It is worthy of note, that the upper half is much the harder. It is with great difficulty that the auger is got down, the ice offering as great resistance as plate-glass or rock, and the pieces broken out by the auger threads being as firm as flint. Through the lower half the boring is much easier, the ice seeming to be softer and more yielding.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ene | 30.14 | 52.0 | -3.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 6 | e | 30.11 | 46.0 | -0.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 9 | exs | 30.13 | 52.0 | 0.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 12 | exs | 30.17 | 45.0 | 0.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 15 | exs | 30.2 | 51.0 | 0.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 18 | exs | 30.26 | 56.0 | 0.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 21 | exs | 30.34 | 61.0 | 0.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 24 | ese | 30.38 | 60.0 | 0.0 | — | — | ocs |
