Entry Index: 667
Position: No position
Date by Position: 23 April 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: 20 tons 1808 lbs Max. temperature = 5.5° Min. temperature = -0.5° 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 60 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A very rapid drift W. x N. being indicated by the lead line. Increasing easterly gale with falling barometer and warmer temperature. Very heavy squalls at times between noon and midnight. Clouds of drift-snow are blown over the ship, and large masses of it are piled up around her. Moon 6° S. Last quarter
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | exn | 30.12 | 54.0 | -0.5 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | exn | 30.04 | 43.0 | 1.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 9 | exn | 30.03 | 51.0 | 2.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 12 | exn | 30.0 | 43.0 | 4.0 | — | — | ocq |
| 15 | exn | 29.94 | 52.0 | 5.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 18 | exn | 29.9 | 56.0 | 4.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 21 | exn | 29.87 | 55.0 | 5.5 | — | — | ocq |
| 24 | exn | 29.81 | 56.0 | 4.5 | — | — | ocq |