Table of Ice Reports, Newfoundland-Labrador Area, IdUU — Continued 



Day of 

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Location and Remarks 



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Bergs 

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FEBRUARY — Continued 



Limits 5/10 cover Cape Race to 46-30 53-00 through 48-10 50-30. 



From 47-59 50-09 to 48-01 50-19 slush and light ice with cakes to 6 inches thick. 



Head of Little Placentia Harbor 10/10 cover mushy and slob ice up to 8 inches thick. 



Slush with occasional pans extends off shore to limits Cape Race to 46-20 53-05, 46-45 

 52-15, 46-58 52-12. Scattered strings light ice 46-25 52-45. From 46-58 52-12 to 

 Cape Broyle 5/10 to 8/10 cover locally formed ice. Off Bay Bulls, pans 3 feet to 4 feet 

 in diameter. St. John's to Torbay pans clear hard ice to 5 feet in diameter and to 1 

 foot thick, but mostly light pans and slob. Conception Bay strings pancake and slush, 

 5/10 cover at mouth decreasing to 2/10 at head of bav. 



48-42 50-31, heavy ice. 



7/10 cover near shore diminishing to edge at 4R-50 52-00. 



Rafted across entrance to St. John's Harbor closing port to navigation. (Rafting caused 

 by onshore winds and swell.) 



Light ice along course within 15 miles of beach from 47-20 N., to St. John's. Rafted ice 

 across entrance blocked St. John's Harbor. Some ice to 10 miles south of Cape Race. 



Very light ice 2/10 to 3/10 cover in patches from 46-39 52-22 to heavier pack vicinity 

 St. John's. Very close packed ice to 1}^ miles off entrance. Vessel penetrated to 

 within H mile of entrance but forced to withdraw. Mostly clear inshore south past 

 Cape Race. 



From 49-1 50-45 to vicinity St. John's scattered pack, cakes less than four inches thick. 



Fills head of Little Placentia Harbor. 



Rafted heavily across approach to St. John's harbor to }. 2 mile off entrance. 



Along coast Cape Ballard (46-47 N.) to Cape Race. 



Ice at St. John's harbor entrance rafted by wind and swell to estimated 20 feet thickness. 

 Extends seaward to over 3 miles. At Bay Bulls close packed and somewhat rafted ice 

 in harbor with approaches clear. Strings 2 miles off shore at Torbay; clear at Flat 

 Rock. Conception Bay vicinity Bell Island no ice in sight. 



Solid from Cape Spear to M mile off shore. St. John's Bay full. Strip fast ice ]/2 mile 

 wide reported along coast Cape Race to Cape St. Francis. 



In Little Placentia Harbor reduced to half that present on the 27th. 



MARCH 



Bonavista Bay, light, scattered. 



St. John's Harbor opened this date with northerly winds movin 

 ice 200 yards wide 3 miles off harbor entrance. Bay Bulls clear. 



Practically cleared from Little Placentia Harbor. 



Patches 6/10 cover to 10 miles off coast Cape St. Francis to Cape Race and decreasing to 

 nil within 40 mile radius of the latter. 



6/10 to 10/10 cover Torbav to 47-40 51-30. Compact from Baccalieu Island to 48-10 

 51-40. 10/10 cover Bonavista Bay to 47-50 51-25. 



Trinity Bay to 1 mile off shore. 



From 48-09 52-48 to within 5 miles off Cape St. Francis patches 9/10 cover, cakes up to 

 100 feet in diameter. Extends eastward to visibility limit. 2/10 cover to 8 or 10 miles 

 off coast St. John's to Cape Race. Slush to 4 miles south of Cape Race. 



8/10 to 9/10 cover from 47-40 52-30 to 47-40 51-15 thence diminishing to eastern edge at 

 47-40 51-00. 



From coast Avalon Peninsula to 47-00 51-40, compact to 30 miles off shore. Belle Isle 

 Strait solid except for strip open water along north shore. 



From coast to 47-00 52-00. 



Placentia Sound and most of Ship Harbor filled. Shore fringe in coves and along beach 

 in Trinity and Conception Bays. Fa.st ice in more protected coves. 



Strings off Cape St. Francis with large areas seaward from north to south. Open water 

 inshore. 



Eight to ten miles off shore between 46-40 52-40 and 48-05 52-40 extending to visibility 

 limit (15 miles) eastward. 



Edge of approximately 5/10 pack and slob through positions: 48-05 52-40, 46-40 52-50, 

 46-19 51-52, 47-21 50-40. Open water strip about 10 miles wide inside this ice along 

 beach. 



Patches off St. John's Harbor. 



46-55, 52-43, patch 8/10 cover 3 miles in diameter. 



Outer limits pack ice from north through 52-00 52-10, 50-06 52-20, 49-38 50-34, 48-52 

 50-10, 48-40 50-20, 48-18 51-40, 47-37 51-32, 47-22 51-40, 47-45 52-10, 47-38 52-25 

 thence inner edge to north clearing headlands bv 10 miles and reaching beach near 49-20 

 53-40. Heavy pack north of 49-30 N., from 4/10 cover near edges to 9/10 and 10/10 

 cover 15 miles inside edge. Some unbroken sheets to more than a mile in diameter. 

 Lighter ice to slob predominant near southern limits, but a few heavier pans to 20 feet 

 across extend to vicinity 47-40 51-40. Detached patches slush south to 46-45 52-53. 

 Scattered icebergs in pack north of 49-30 N, and west of 52-20 W., with many vicinity 

 Funk Island. Positions of 57 bergs and several large growlers were recorded. These 

 bergs were distributed in 1° squares of latitude and longitude as follows: 49/50 N.: 

 52/53 W., -12, 53/54 W., -22; 50/51 N.: 52/53 W., -3. 53/54 W., -15; 51/52 N.: 

 52/53 W., -4, 53/54 W., -1. 



Along Labrador coast at Cape Harrison, heavv, 120 miles wide. 



Southern extremity main pack bounded bv limits: 48-20 49-28, 47-17 48-45, 48-05 50-38, 

 47-13 51-00, 47-22 52-23, 47-50 52-25, 48-10 52-05. 48-23 52-45. Pack 2/10 to 10/10 

 cover. Southern border in strings and patches; eastern edge, strings; western edge, 

 close packed. Southern limits slob to pans 20 feet in diameter. Farther north no 

 slob but heavy sharp edged cakes up to 50 feet across. 



48-10 50-10, 48-25 50-28, 48-30 50-18. 



Southern limits bounded by positions: 48-25 52-45, 48-00 52-00, 47-35 60-45, 47-40 

 49-00, 47-03 47-29, 47-26 46-53 thence eastern edge through 48-00 47-45 and north 

 westerly. Some sc:ittered strings extend 4 to 6 miles south these limits. Eastern 

 border scattered with much open water. Occasional patches slush between coast and 

 western edge. Conception and Trinity Bays clear. 



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