Entry Index: 625
Position: No position
Date by Position: 12 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: 325 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 27 tons 758 lbs Max. temperature = -17° Min. temperature = -39.5° 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 38 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift east being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally clear, bright and pleasant. Light S.S.E. breeze veering to N.N.W. by noon, and then backing to W.N.W. by midnight. Rapidly rising barometer and as rapidly decreasing temperature. Sunrise cloudy. Sunset 5h 23m. At 9pm twilight in horizon to N.W. (true). At midnight brilliant flashes of dancing curtain segments from W.S.W. horizon to zenith. At same time sharp whistlings and snappings from the ice. Moon 13° N. First quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At midnight brilliant flashing of an auroral mass of curtain segments west between horizon and zenith. At the same time I remarked what I have frequently heard before, noises from the ice all around me like the singing which a whiplash makes in cutting through the air, or a noise produced by switching a rattan.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | sse | 29.56 | 44.0 | -17.0 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | sse | 29.55 | 39.0 | -21.0 | — | — | bcm |
| 9 | wsw | 29.62 | 48.0 | -23.0 | — | — | bcm |
| 12 | nnw | 29.68 | 35.0 | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 15 | nnw | 29.76 | 46.0 | -27.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 18 | nnw | 29.86 | 55.0 | -32.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | nw | 29.94 | 57.0 | -35.2 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | wnw | 29.99 | 58.0 | -39.5 | — | — | bc |
