Entry Index: 81
Position: No position
Date by Position: 14 September 1879
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Latitude by observation at noon: no observation Longitude by chronometer from forenoon observations: no observation Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 50 gallons Water remaining on hand fit for use at noon 30 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 260 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 111 tons 773 lbs Com. and until 4am Cloudy weather. Calm [signed] Hans Erichsen 4 to 8am Overcast and calm. Hazy. [signed] John Cole 8am to meridian Overcast. Light airs from S.S.E. and calms. At 9 Lieutenant Chipp and sledge party returned to ship having found thin ice and open water about 10 miles from the ship in the direction of Herald Island. At 10.30 Comd'g Officer inspected ship and held divine service. At 12 sounded in 28 fathoms. Blue mud. No drift indicated by line. Herald Island obscured by fog. [signed] William Nindemann Meridian to 4pm Cloudy. Snow squalls. Light breeze from S.E. [signed] Hans Erichsen 4 to 6pm Overcast. Light airs from S.E. [signed] John Cole 6 to 8pm Misty. Light air from S.E. [signed] William Nindemann 8pm to midnight Calm weather. Sky overcast. Commenced snowing at 10. [signed] William Dunbar Soundings At 27 fathoms = 30.8° - Salinometer 1.0270 at 37 1/2° At 13 fathoms = 32.2° - Salinometer 1.02410 at 35° At surface = 33° Moon 3° N. Last quarter
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Chipp reports to me that when about seven miles from the ship he found much lighter ice than the ice-field we are now in, it being composed of floe pieces cemented together by young ice, in many places just strong enough to bear the weight of the sledge and party. At ten miles from the ship he came to a broad lead, one half mile wide, extending E. and W. as far as eye could reach, with open lanes extending in S.E., S., and S.W. directions. Here the ice was different again, showing evidences of severe pressure. The old floes were closer together, and the young ice was broken and forced up into ridges of eight to twelve feet in height. He followed the edge of this lead to the westward a mile or so, when it turned up to the N.W., with an edge of soft and rotten ice. The ice around Herald Island appeared to be rotten and cut up with leads.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sw | 29.83 | 35.0 | 28.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 2 | sw | 29.82 | 31.0 | 26.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 3 | calm | 29.82 | 31.0 | 26.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 4 | calm | 29.82 | 31.0 | 26.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 5 | calm | 29.81 | 30.0 | 26.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 6 | calm | 29.8 | 28.0 | 24.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 7 | calm | 29.8 | 30.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 8 | calm | 29.8 | 33.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 9 | calm | 29.8 | 36.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 10 | sse | 29.8 | 36.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 11 | sse | 29.78 | 36.0 | 31.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 12 | sse | 29.78 | 39.0 | 32.0 | — | 33.0 | ocs |
| 13 | se | 29.76 | 36.0 | 32.0 | — | 33.0 | bcz |
| 14 | se | 29.75 | 35.0 | 32.0 | — | 33.0 | bcz |
| 15 | se | 29.74 | 35.0 | 32.0 | — | 33.0 | ofs |
| 16 | se | 29.73 | 35.0 | 32.0 | — | 33.0 | of |
| 17 | se | 29.73 | 30.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 18 | se | 29.72 | 29.0 | 27.0 | — | 33.0 | oc |
| 19 | se | 29.71 | 32.0 | 29.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 20 | se | 29.71 | 31.0 | 28.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 21 | calm | 29.7 | 31.0 | 28.0 | — | 32.0 | oz |
| 22 | calm | 29.7 | 31.0 | 27.0 | — | 32.0 | oz |
| 23 | calm | 29.7 | 31.0 | 27.0 | — | 32.0 | oz |
| 24 | calm | 29.69 | 30.0 | 27.0 | — | 32.0 | ozs |
