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LISTS OF DREDGING STATIONS. 



937 



REPORT OF DREDGINCS OF THE ALBATROSS FOR 1884, BY 

 LIEUT. SEATOX SCHROEDER, U. S. N., NAVIGATOR. 



During the year 1884 the geographical limits of the cruising of the 

 Albatross were the parallels of 8° 30' and 43° north latitude and the 

 meridians of 61° 30' and 85° 30' west longitude. The number of days 

 at sea and the distances run, together with the object of each trip, are 

 given in the followiug table : 



Date. 



January 6 to 7 



January 10 to 17 



January 24 to 30 . . .' 



February 2 



February 3 to 1 1 



February 18 to 26 



February 27 to March 1 



March 12 to 10 



March 22 to 20 



April 2 to 5 



April 9 to 15 



April 29 



April 30 to May 7 



May 11 tc 17 



July 13 to 14 



July 20 to 26 



July 31 to August 8 



August 19 to 25 



August 27 



August 28 to 31 



September 1 



September o to 15 



September 25 to 29 



October 8 to 9 



October 17 to 23 



December 25 to 26 



Total, 134 days. 



Object. 



Baltimore to Korfolk 



Sounding trip 



Sounding and dredging trip. 



Swinging ship 



Sounding and dredging trip. 

 do 



.do 

 .do 



do 

 .do 



Key West to Havana, Cuba 



Sounding and dredging trip 



Sounding trip 



"Washington to Norfolk. 



Investigating migration- ot menhaden and mackerel. 



Dredging trip 



.... do 



Wood's lloll to Newport 



Flagship of Honorable Secretary of the Navy 



Newport to Wood's I loll .' 



Dredging trip 



Wood's Holl to New York. 



Dredging trip 



Washington to Norfolk 



Distance. 



Miles. 

 103 



1,417. 

 660. 

 20 



1, 209. 



1, 100. 

 333. 

 605. 

 429. 

 253 

 813. 

 100 

 603. 



1,279. 



174 



651. 



4S(i. 



429. 



42 



47 



42 



943 



424. 



189 



797 



174 



13, 388 



The number of soundings taken during the year was 701, almost all 

 of which were located with sufficient accuracy to be of hydrographic 

 value; of these, 194 were also dredging stations. 



During the winter and spring the vessel was employed in hydro- 

 graphic work for the Navy Department; searching for reported dangers 

 in the West Indies and between there and the Chesapeake; running lines 

 of soundings across the Caribbean Sea and among some of the islands; 

 taking serial temperatures and noting surface currents ; making an ex- 

 amination of a part of Savanilla Bay, United States of Colombia, and 

 establishing the longitude of Cape San Antonio light house, Cuba. 



