reported her position on track ''E" April 19. The same day we were 

 informed that the Canadian ice patrol ship Mikula was now on her 

 station near Cabot Straits. 



The outstanding feature of the cruise was the inshore distribution 

 of the ice as it was carried southward. Where it is usually transported 

 in the heart of the current along the 100-fatliom contour of the conti- 

 nental edge, this year it was moving southward 15 to 25 miles inshore 

 of that zone. Such a condition is attributed to the warm Atlantic 

 waters pressed in against the continental slope combined with an 

 abnormal prevalence of easterly and northeasterly winds. We re- 

 ceived 840 water temperature reports, 89 ice reports, sighted 7 ice- 

 bergs, gave 13 ships special ice information, and requested 27 others 

 to acknowledge for the evening broadcast, as it was observed that their 

 courses were taking them dangerously close to ice. 



THE THIRD CRUISE, "TAMPA," APRIL 24 TO MAY 8, 1927 



The current survey begun on the Modoc was completed in two days, 

 and the same evening, the 25th, a report was received regarding an ice- 

 berg about 100 miles due west of the Tail, in a position which we had 

 passed over in the morning. This ice was missed probably because 

 of the poor visibility, it being hazy and foggy all the previous day. 

 We headed toward the reported locality, of course, and fortunately 

 sighted the berg dead ahead at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 26th. 

 It was hard to account for this ice having followed the usual path 

 toward the Tail, and the only conclusion tenable was that it must 

 have drifted diagonally across the Bank, southwestward. Such an 

 opinion was supported, furthermore, by the fact that on the 21st, 

 five days previous, the Modoc had sighted a berg about 40 miles to 

 the northeast of this position, to which the berg we were standing 

 by bore a close resemblance. We drifted with this ice for the next 

 three days and during that time it constantly melted and finally 

 completely broke up, but did not move far away from the spot at 

 which it was originally sighted. More than passing interest attaches 

 to this ice because it happened to be the last berg for the season of 

 1927 to drift so far southward and, moreover, proved to be, out of 

 all the bergs for the season, the one which drifted nearest to the 

 westbound steamship tracks "B;" a distance of 70 miles. (See 

 fig. 28.) 



Fog and storms interrupted the ice-searching program for the 

 next few days and it was not until the 3d of May that the Tampa, at 

 13 knots speed, resumed scouting along the eastern side of the Bank. 

 There followed several days of clear weather during which time we 

 pushed home the search and covered the cold current along the entire 

 eastern side of the Bank, thence westward to the coast of Newfound- 

 land. May 6, when about 100 miles east of St. Johns, Newfoundland, 



