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radio compass bearings from Cape Kace. Got 85 fathoms by care- 

 ful sounding with machine; fine white sand. This spot is between 

 , 22 and 28 fathoms, as shown on H. O. Chart No. 980, corrected 

 through Notice to Mariners No. 44, 1922. There was 26 fathoms 

 where we anchored. 



At 6 a. m. of the l.'Sth the patrol left her anchorage and stood 

 to the eastward to outside the 100-fathoni curve, then to the north- 

 ward parallel to said cui-A'e. At 8.15 a. m. the French barkentine 

 Viana asked for and was furnished her longitude position. At 12.30 

 p. m. oceanographic station No. 395 was occupied. Visibility, which 

 had been very good, becoming poor and weather stormy, the vessel 

 was headed in for the banks and anchored at 6.40 p, m. in 44° 58' 

 north latitude, 49° 23' west longitude. While standing in for an 

 anchorage, careful soundings were made and the following positions 

 and depths seem worth recording: 



44° 49' 00" north, 49° 03' 00" west, 100 fathoms, no bottom, 



44° 51' 10" north, 49° 09' 00" west, 60 fathoms. 



44° 53' 20" north, 49° 15' 00" west, 60 fathoms. 



44° 56' 00" north, 49° 20' 00" west. 60 fathoms. 



44° 58' 30" north, 49° 26' 00" west, 34 fathoms. 

 These positions were carefully checked by sights and by radio 

 bearings from Cape Race, and are believed to be correct. The last 

 sounding, 34 fathoms, agrees with Hydrographic Office Chart No. 

 980. Depths in the other positions are not recorded on said chart. 

 Oceanographic station No. 396, at the anchorage, was occupied. 

 Winds were from the SW. quadrant, increasing in force from 3 to 5 

 and falling after 4 p. m. to calm at the close : clear to overcast and 

 cloudy, with driving rain in afternoon, changing to thick fog from 

 5.30 to 6.30 p. m., clearing after dark; barometer was falling and 

 registered 29.39 at midnight. Fulmars, murres, dovekies and whale 

 were plentiful. 

 Special ice information was given the steamship Berengaria. 

 At 4.50 a. m. of the 16th the patrol left her anchorage and 

 scouted to the northeastward along the 100-fathom curve of the 

 Banks. At 9.20 a. m. oceanographic station No. 397 and at 3.15 p. m. 

 No. 398, the latter in 46° north latitude. 47° 45' west longitude, were 

 occupied. Water temperatures along the east slope of the Banks 

 showed less of arctic character than Avas to be expected at this season 

 of the year. They were in no instance l)elow 0° C, whereas it is 

 normal for them at this time to range from —1.2° to —1.8° C. Little 

 or no surface current setting to the southward could be observed. 

 Normally at this season a 0.5 to 0.7 knot current is setting south- 

 ward in this locality. This abnormality would seem to explain the 

 absence of bergs around the tail of the lianks. There mav be ice 



