Entry Index: 694
Position: No position
Date by Position: 20 May 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: 365 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 17 tons 778 lbs Max. temperature = 14° 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 41 fathoms. Muddy bottom. A moderate drift to N.W. being indicated by the lead line. Fresh east winds all day, at times blowing a moderate gale. Falling barometer and rising temperature. At 9.30am the ice opened 70 yards from the starboard bow, leaving a lane of water about 20 feet in width and extending in a north and south direction about 3 miles. At the same time several other openings could be seen from aloft towards the N.W. The island remains in plain view all day, though nothing can be seen of the high land beyond, the strong appearance of which is noted in yesterday's log. The center of the island now bears west true, but as no observations could be attained to day its position and distance can not be determined by the change of bearing. Moon 7° S. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
At 9.30 a.m. the ice quietly opened seventy yards from our starboard bow, and a lane of water about twenty feet in width extended north and south for about three miles, and several other cracks and lanes were visible to the northwest. Whether when we get to the westward of our island the ice will spread and open remains to be seen; but this lane is quite close enough, unless we can use it for an advance. We have a crack under our starboard counter that may connect, and a crack ahead in the line of our keel as a starter, which may at any time leave our whole starboard side bare.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | exn | 30.16 | 51.0 | 3.0 | — | — | bc |
| 6 | exn | 30.12 | 46.0 | 7.0 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | e | 30.13 | 54.0 | 10.5 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | e | 30.09 | 42.0 | 13.0 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | e | 30.07 | 47.0 | 14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 18 | e | 30.07 | 52.0 | 14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 21 | e | 30.07 | 57.0 | 14.0 | — | — | bc |
| 24 | e | 30.06 | 53.0 | 13.0 | — | — | bc |
