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Marion stations of 1928, but on the run southwest toward Cape 

 Harrison they began to be located somewhat north of the 1928 station 

 line. This was done, not only to effect a more even spacing of the 

 vertical oceanographic sections, but also to permit our sounding out 

 with the fathometer the unknown area of the Labrador coastal 

 shelf. 



Early on the morning of the 13th the line of stations toward Cape 

 Harrison was finished and the vessel was headed northwestward along 

 the coast toward Port Manvers, Labrador. The weather was over- 

 cast and foggy, so that the number of bergs grounded along the coast 

 between Capes Harrison and Harrigan could not be determined. 



On July 14 the weather became fine and the ship's position off 

 Port Manvers was accurately located. The line of stations running 

 offshore could not be started at once, however, because of the snap- 

 ping of the crankshaft of the Cummings engine which drove the 

 generator furnishing power for the salinometer, fathometer, and the 

 oceanographic winch. The engineers, by working throughout the 

 night of July 14, succeeded in pouring a new bearing for the gen- 

 erator, and in shifting the port battery-charging Cummings engine 

 over to the starboard side and in lining it up with the 220-volt 

 generator. Thereafter the ship was somewhat handicapped, being 

 practically without pumps, power windlass, lights, refrigeration, or 

 radio, but the stations and the fathometer soundings could be taken 

 and the required scientific program was completed without further 

 hitch. 



After a few days it was discovered that the fathometer generator 

 could be used to put a limited charge into the ship's storage batteries. 

 This work, for which it was not designed, kept reversing the polarity 

 for the fathometer, but it enabled the charge in the batteries to be 

 kept up enough so that a few electric lights could be burned. It also 

 permitted a few short radio messages to be transmitted when nec- 

 essary to near-by shore stations. 



Shortly after noon on July 16 the last station offshore from Port 

 Manvers was occupied and a NNW. course was started toward the 

 next line. By noon on July 18 that line had been completed and a 

 good landfall in perfect weather was made near the south side of 

 the entrance to Nachvak Bay, Labrador. This bay is a large and 

 deep fiord, surrounded by steep mountains, many of which are over 

 3,000 feet high. There is no large-scale chart of it published, but, 

 by carefully enlarging by five times a part of the general chart of 

 Labrador which we had on board, a fair working chart on which to 

 run was obtained. We followed the directions given in the New- 

 foundland and Labrador Pilot book to avoid the dangers in the 

 entrance to Nachvak Bay, and safely reached the deep waters inside. 



The ship was run inland about 16 miles to the site of the Hudson 

 Bay Co. post, but no buildings and no inhabitants could be found 



