Entry Index: 642
Position: 75.45, 170.43
Date by Position: 29 March 1881
Logbook Volume: 4 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 4
Latitude by observation at Noon N. 75° 27' Longitude by chronometer from observation Planet Venus 8pm E. 170° 26' 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: 24 tons 1273 lbs Max. temperature = -13.5° 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 64 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift to east being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally bright and pleasant. Light S.W. airs backing to N.E. with rising barometer, and low temperature except for a short time in the middle of the day. Sunrise 4h 40m. Sunset 7h 15m. At 6am a very dark mist rose from the ice between N.W. (around by N.) and E.S.E. At noon a large opening could be seen between those points, and other openings occurred to south and S.W. The ice was grinding and moving at noon and midnight. Some of the openings were 150 feet in width. Moon 6° N. Last quarter
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
We have been quite excited to-day about ice openings. At six a.m. masses of dark vapor were rising in clouds from north northwest. Around by north to southeast and from aloft a very large opening could be seen. Toward four p.m. another opening occurred in the southwest, and the old lead one eighth of a mile astern (north) opened also. All the hunters were out, of course, and made for the water. But three seals were seen, too far to shoot at, and no bear-tracks. By using a glass from aloft, ice could be seen across this large opening to the northward. So we were not on the edge of an open sea, as we might have hoped. Generally speaking, however, the ice is full of small cracks, and it seems as if a good southwest blow would send it streaming away to the northeast without any difficulty, and getting these fields into deep water break them up, and so allow us a chance to get our poor ice-ridden ship under way.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | sw | 30.18 | 58.0 | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | sw | 30.22 | 54.0 | -27.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | wsw | 30.27 | 57.0 | -20.5 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | wsw | 30.3 | 43.0 | -15.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | se | 30.36 | 58.0 | -13.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nne | 30.39 | 59.0 | -20.0 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | ne | 30.43 | 57.0 | -24.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | ne | 30.42 | 52.0 | -28.0 | — | — | bf |
