Entry Index: 622
Position: No position
Date by Position: 9 March 1881
Logbook Volume: 4 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 4
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: 360 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 27 tons 1948 lbs Max. temperature = -13.5° 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 36 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to N.N.E. being indicated by the lead line. Fresh S.W. gale veering to S.W. toward midnight. Rapidly falling barometer and as rapidly increasing temperature. The air was filled with clouds of drifting snow from the floe surface and large quantities even blown on board ship. Moon 22° N. First quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | ssw | 30.11 | 35.0 | -31.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | ssw | 29.95 | 47.0 | -25.5 | — | — | bcq |
| 9 | ssw | 29.84 | 52.0 | -21.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 12 | ssw | 29.69 | 40.0 | -19.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 15 | ssw | 29.6 | 50.0 | -17.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 18 | ssw | 29.53 | 51.0 | -16.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 21 | ssw | 29.48 | 53.0 | -15.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 24 | sw | 29.43 | 48.0 | -13.5 | — | — | ocq |