Entry Index: 676
Position: 76.32, 163.17
Date by Position: 2 May 1881
Logbook Volume: 4 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 4
Latitude by observation at Noon N. 76° 19' Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations E. 163° 10' 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: 290 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 19 tons 1293 lbs Max. temperature = 8° Min. temperature = -2° The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters aft through and under and 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 32 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A rapid drift to S.W. x W. being indicated by the lead line. At 10am all hands were called to muster. Read the act for the government of the Navy and mustered the crew. The ship was then inspected by the Commanding Officer. At 1.30pm divine service was performed in the cabin. Fresh northerly breezes growing light after noon, with rising barometer and falling temperature. At 5pm the ship received a shock under the stern, and shortly afterwards it was found that the ice had opened about 180 yards from her, making a lane of water from 10 to 20 feet in width and extending in an irregular bow and quarter line as far as could be seen among the rough ice. Moon 23° N. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At five p.m. we got a sharp shock under the stern, and soon after we found the ice open about one hundred and eighty yards from the ship, and running in an irregular bow-and-quarter line as far as we could see it through the rough ice. It gave a chance for Chipp to make some interesting measures of ice thickness which I put in my general items book.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | nexn | 29.78 | 55.0 | 6.0 | — | — | oc |
| 6 | n | 29.74 | 46.0 | 6.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | nxw | 29.79 | 53.0 | 7.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | n | 29.82 | 48.0 | 8.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | nnw | 29.89 | 54.0 | 7.5 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | nnw | 29.92 | 51.0 | 5.5 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | nw | 29.98 | 59.0 | -1.5 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | n | 30.0 | 59.0 | 1.5 | — | — | bc |
