INTERNATIONAL ICE OBSERVATION AND ICE PATROL SERVICE. 49 



At 10 p. m. the following broadcast was sent: "Ice patrol Tampa, 

 41 18, 51 28, near small berg. Two bergs grounded on Tail of Bank. 

 Foggv." 



July 14. At 2 a. m. a steamship passed us. We attempted to 

 notify her of the berg and ascertamed that she would pass a safe 

 distance from it. At 5.30 a. m. stood back to the ber^ and found it 

 to be a mere growler and no longer a menace to navigation. We then 

 stood on course to meet the Modoc. At 6 p. m., after a conference 

 with the commander of the ice patrol on the Modoc, in lat. 41° 52' N., 

 long. 53° 20' W., the ice patrol season was declared at an end and the 

 vessel stood for Boston, Mass. 



Daily routine ice reports were sent to the Hydrographic Office, 

 New York; Fuelite, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Cape Race; and 

 were broadcasted. 



The following ice formation and obstruction reports were received ; 

 July 3, steamship Canadian Trooper, one berg and several small 

 growlers, lat. 48° 30' N., long. 49° 04' W.; July 5, steamship Sanugon, 

 large bergs, lat. 43° 00' N., long. 50° 20' W., and lat. 42° 58' N., 

 long. 50° 10' W.; July 6, steamship Western Plains, berg, lat. 42° 

 28' N., long. 50° 05' W. ; July 7, steamship ParTctown, a large berg, 

 lat. 43° 04' N., long. 50° 34' W., and another 8 miles E. by S. from 

 that position; July 8, steamship Seattle Spirit, spar buoy, projecting 

 four feet out of water, lat. 41° 32' N., long. 45° 30' W.; July 10, 

 steamship Rhode Island, berg. lat. 43° 40' N., long. 47° 20' W.; 

 July 11, steamship Chicago, berg and growlers, lat. 42° 01' N., long. 

 51° 28' W.; steamship Sunoco, large berg, lat. 42° 17' N., long. 

 51° 40' W. 



Some 200 sea-water temperature reports were received during this 

 cruise. 



