Entry Index: 643
Position: No position
Date by Position: 30 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: 24 tons 913 lbs Max. temperature = -3° Min. temperature = -32° 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 60 1/2 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A slight drift westward being indicated by the lead line. Weather generally cloudy and dull. Light N.E. airs freshening and veering to E.S.E. with falling barometer and rising temperature. Sunrise cloudy. Sunset cloudy. All the openings in the ice noticed in yesterday's log, are to day found closed. The ice seems jammed together solidly in all directions. Moon 11° N. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
As if by magic every ice opening of yesterday is closed to-day, and not a drop of water is to be seen. A light N.E. breeze veers to E.N.E. and to S.E., and the ice is all solid again. To the southwest of us it came together with some force, for a ridge of broken lumps marks the line of closing.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nne | 30.4 | 45.0 | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | nexn | 30.36 | 39.0 | -16.5 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | nexe | 30.35 | 51.0 | -13.5 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | ne | 30.29 | 40.0 | -11.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | nexe | 30.25 | 49.0 | -6.0 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nexe | 30.23 | 57.0 | -3.0 | — | — | bcs |
| 21 | e | 30.19 | 55.0 | -14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | ese | 30.17 | 53.0 | -10.5 | — | — | oc |
