Entry Index: 71
Position: 71.1, -174.1
Date by Position: 4 September 1879
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Distance run by log since preceding noon 9 knots 0 fathoms Latitude by D.R. at noon 71° 06' N. Longitude by D.R. at noon 174° 30' W. Longitude by chronometer from afternoon observations (Sun) at 5.20pm 174° 05' 45" W. Variation of the compass by azimuth at 5.20pm 26° 18' E. Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 70 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 300 gallons Water remaining on hand fit for use at noon 330 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 1 tons 1660 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 119 tons 523 lbs AM: Anchored to an ice floe. 4pm: Set fore and aft sail 10pm: Took in fore and aft sail 10pm: Turning in a circle Com. and until 4am Foggy. Light airs from N.E. The ice in motion and drifting to S.E. [signed] William Nindemann 4 to 8am Foggy. Light airs from N.E. The ice in motion. [signed] William Dunbar 8am to meridian Foggy. Light airs from N.W. and calm. At 12 took sounding in 24 fathoms - blue mud. [signed] John Cole Meridian to 4pm Foggy. Light airs from N.N.W. to N. At 2 the fog cleared away. Spread fires and got underway and worked to the N.E. [signed] William Nindemann 4 to 6pm Clear and pleasant. Fresh breeze from N. At 4.30 got out of the pack. At 5 could see the ice to the N.E. pack extending from S.E. to N.W. and around to N. leaving about eight points of the compass open. Clear water. Passed a drifting tree that had been torn up by its roots. Herald Island was sighted at 4.30 bearing W.N.W. (true) and great distorted by mirage. [signed] William Dunbar 6 to 8pm Clear and pleasant. Light northerly wind. Banked fires and went ahead slowly, engines making 20 revolutions. [signed] John Cole 8pm to midnight Clear and pleasant. Light breeze from N.N.E. At 9.10 put helm hard a 'port and turned in circles during remainder of the watch. Ice all about the horizon. Herald Island bearing W.N.W. (true). [signed] William Nindemann Soundings At 23 fathoms = 31° - Salinometer 1.02610 at 34° At 9 fathoms = 32° - Salinometer 1.02610 at 34° At surface = 33.5° Moon 18° N. Full moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The day opens calm and with a thick fog. Still at anchor to the floe. We observe a gradual closing in of large floes around us, and a seeming drift of small pieces to the southeast through the small water spaces. ... The pack ice surrounding us seems to have a uniform thickness of about seven feet, - two feet being above the water. It is somewhat hummocky, but I do not observe any hummock greater in height than six or seven feet. New ice has made around the ship during the night, the temperature standing at 29° during the night and up to eight a.m. Sounds as of surf heard to southeast indicating open water in that direction. At two p.m. the fog cleared away, and we spread fires at once and got under way. The greatest amount of water space seeming to be to the northeast, we made our way in that direction generally, and at 4.30 we succeeded in getting out of the pack into the open sea; that is, comparatively open, because the pack extended from southeast around by west to north, while only to the eastward was there open water. Upon reaching this open water we passed a drifting tree that seemed to have been torn up by the roots, but, more important still, land was sighted at 4.30, bearing W.N.W. true. From the reckoning we have been able to keep of our position, this land is Herald Island, discovered and landed upon by Captain Kellett, of H.M.S. Herald, in 1849. Not caring to put the ship in the close pack which appeared to the northward of us and lose sight of Herald Island without advancing materially, I slowed the engines and kept the ship turning round in circles for the night, just clear of the ice.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ne | 30.13 | 31.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 2 | nw | 30.13 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 3 | ne | 30.13 | 31.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 4 | ne | 30.13 | 31.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 5 | ne | 30.12 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 6 | ne | 30.1 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 7 | ne | 30.1 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 8 | n | 30.1 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 9 | nw | 30.14 | 36.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 10 | nw | 30.14 | 37.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 11 | nw | 30.18 | 42.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 33.0 | f |
| 12 | nw | 30.15 | 43.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 33.0 | f |
| 13 | nnw | 30.12 | 42.0 | 38.0 | 38.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 14 | nnw | 30.12 | 42.0 | 35.0 | 35.0 | 32.0 | f |
| 15 | n | 30.11 | 43.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 32.0 | bc |
| 16 | n | 30.11 | 43.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 32.0 | bc |
| 17 | n | 30.11 | 43.0 | 39.0 | 34.0 | 33.0 | bc |
| 18 | n | 30.11 | 43.0 | 39.0 | 34.0 | 33.0 | bc |
| 19 | n | 30.1 | 33.0 | 32.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | bc |
| 20 | nne | 30.09 | 33.0 | 32.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | bc |
| 21 | nne | 30.08 | 32.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 34.0 | bc |
| 22 | nne | 30.08 | 32.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | 34.0 | bcz |
| 23 | nne | 30.08 | 32.0 | 31.0 | 31.0 | 34.0 | bcz |
| 24 | nne | 30.07 | 32.0 | 31.0 | 31.0 | 34.0 | bcz |
