Entry Index: 87
Position: No position
Date by Position: 20 September 1879
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Snow and ice used for water Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 0 tons 340 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 110 tons 1523 lbs Com. and until 4am Thick, misty weather. Light airs from E. [signed] William Dunbar 4 to 8am Heavy mist. Light E. wind. [signed] John Cole 8am to meridian Weather misty. Light snow first hour. Light airs from E'd. At 12 sounded in 40 fathoms. Blue mud. Herald Island obscured. Ship heeling 5°. Ice thawing rapidly. [signed] William Nindemann Meridian to 4pm Foggy weather. Light airs from S.E. At 1 hauled in dredge. [signed] William Dunbar 4 to 6pm Overcast and misty. Light airs from S.S.W. [signed] John Cole 6 to 8pm Overcast. Light breeze from S.S.W. and freshening. [signed] William Nindemann 8pm to midnight Overcast and snowing at times. Fresh breeze from S.W. [signed] William Dunbar Soundings At 39 fathoms = 29° - Salinometer 1.02690 at 34° At 25 fathoms = 32.25° - Salinometer 1.02520 at 34° At surface = 33° Moon 25° S. New moon
See full digitized page provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Excerpt:
The result of the S.E. blow and the mild temperature has been to open lanes in our immediate neighborhood, but none of them are of any great extent, and the heavy pack shows across the openings which are not more than fifty feet wide. If we were not securely held between two floes, I would move into one of these leads, even if we advanced only half a mile. (We would have moved at all events and have broken the monotony.) But we are securely held as in a vice, and heeling 5° to starboard.
See digitized manuscript page provided by NOAA PMEL.
Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | 29.64 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 2 | e | 29.64 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 3 | e | 29.64 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 4 | e | 29.64 | 34.0 | 34.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 5 | e | 29.62 | 34.0 | 34.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 6 | e | 29.62 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 7 | e | 29.62 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 8 | e | 29.62 | 35.0 | 33.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 9 | e | 29.61 | 36.0 | 34.0 | — | 33.0 | ms |
| 10 | e | 29.61 | 36.0 | 34.0 | — | 33.0 | m |
| 11 | e | 29.62 | 39.0 | 35.0 | — | 33.0 | f |
| 12 | e | 29.62 | 40.0 | 36.0 | — | 33.0 | fdr |
| 13 | se | 29.65 | 35.0 | 36.5 | 36.5 | 33.0 | f |
| 14 | se | 29.65 | 35.0 | 35.4 | 35.4 | 33.0 | f |
| 15 | se | 29.65 | 35.0 | 35.0 | 35.0 | 33.0 | f |
| 16 | sse | 29.65 | 35.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 33.0 | f |
| 17 | ssw | 29.7 | 35.0 | 33.3 | 33.0 | — | o |
| 18 | ssw | 29.72 | 34.0 | 32.5 | 32.5 | — | o |
| 19 | ssw | 29.75 | 34.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 | — | o |
| 20 | ssw | 29.78 | 33.0 | 31.2 | 31.2 | — | o |
| 21 | sw | 29.82 | 32.0 | 31.0 | 30.8 | — | ozs |
| 22 | sw | 29.82 | 32.0 | 30.0 | 30.0 | — | ozs |
| 23 | sw | 29.84 | 32.0 | 29.0 | 28.5 | — | ozs |
| 24 | sw | 29.84 | 32.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 | — | ozs |
