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LISTS OF DREDGING STATIONS. 



937 



REPORT OF DREDGmOS OF THE ALBATROSS FOR 1884, BY 

 LIEUT. SEATO:^ SOHROEDER, U. S. N., IS^AYIGATOR. 



During the year 1884 the geographical limits of the cruising of the 

 Albatross were the parallels of 8° 30^ and 43° north latitude and the 

 meridians of 61^ 30' and 85^ 30' west longitude. The number of days 

 at sea and the distances run, together with the object of each trip, are 

 given in the following table : 



Date. 



January 6 to 7 



January 10 to 17 



January 24 to 30 



February 2 



February 3 to 11 



February 18 to 26 



February 27 to March 1 . 



March 12 to 16 



March 22 to 26 



April 2 to 5 



April 9to 15 



April 29 



April 30 to May 7 



May 11 tc 17 



July 13 to 14 



July 20 to 26 



July 31 to Aufrust 8 



August 19 to 25 



August 27 



Aujrust 28to 31 



September 1 



September' 6 to 15 



September 25 to 29 



October 8 to 9 



October 17 to 23 



December 25 to 26 



Total, 134 days. 



Object. 



Baltimore to Norfolk 



Soundino; trip 



Sounding and dredging trip 



Swinging ship , 



Sounding and dredging trip 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Key West to Havana, Cuba 



Sounding and dredging trip 



Sounding trip 



Washington to Norfolk 



Investigating migrations of menhaden and mackerel. 



Dredging trip 



do ,. 



Wood's HoU to Newport 



Flagship of Honorable Secretary of the Navy. 



Newport to Wood's Holl 



Dredging trip 



do 



Wood's Holl to New York 



Dredging trip 



Washington to Norfolk 



Distance. 



Miles. 

 163 

 1, 417. 5 

 C60.2 

 20 

 1,209.4 

 1, 100. 8 

 333.8 



605.1 



429.4 



253 



813.1 



100 



603.8 



279. 5 



174 



651.7 



486.4 



429.2 



42 



47 



42 

 943 

 424. 1 

 189 

 797 

 174 



13, 388 



The number of soundings taken during the year was 701, almost all 

 of which were located with sufficient accuracy to be of hydrographic 

 value 'j of these, 194 were also dredging stations. 



During the winter and spring the vessel was emj^loyed in hydro- 

 graphic work for the Navy Department; searching for reported dangers 

 in the West Indies and between there and the Chesapeake; running lines 

 of soundings across the Caribbean Sea and among some of the islands ,• 

 taking serial temperatures and noting surface currents ; making an ex- 

 amination of a part of Savanilla Bay, United States of Colombia, and 

 establishing the longitude of Cape San Antonio lighthouse, Cuba. 



