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WORK OF STEAMER ALBATROSS. 

 Meteorological summary. 



415 





Winds— hours. 



Tempera- 

 ture. 



Barometer. 



Aggregate cur- 

 rent. 





Locality and date. 



a 



o 



Xfl 



33 



O 





7* 



03 



03 



03 



o 



a 



03 

 



a 



a 



a 



o 



a 

 a 



'3 







a 



09 



© 



3 



a 

 a 



a 



* 



Minimum. 



09 

 >, 

 93 



a 











o 



o 







Montevideo to Cape Vir- 

 gins, Jan. 12-17.* 



47 



95 





.... 



8 



65.5 



83 



48 



29. 93 



30.14 



29. 72 



N. 22° E. 20' 



2 



Cape Virgins to Sandy 

 Point, Jan. 18-31.* 



146 



156 



.... 



.... 



34 



53.5 



68 



39 



29.83 



30. 36 



29.30 



Magellan Straits 



11 



Sandy Point to Port Otway, 

 Feb. 1-10.* 



74 



137 







29 



56 



68 



44 



29.88 



30.30 



29.46 



....do 



7 











Port Otway to Lota, Chili, 

 Feb. 11-18.* 



139 



12 







41 



65 



75 



55 



30.02 



30.24 



29.80 



N. 76° W. 9" . . . . 













Lota Chili to Panama, Uni- 



241 



124 







43 



72.5 



85 



60 



29.90 



30.08 



29.72 



S. 81? W. 69" .... 



7 



ted States of Colombia, 

 Feb. 19-Mar. 6.* 











23 



451 



13 



35 



28 



81 



88 



74 



29.84 



30.00 



29.68 



None 



3 



Colombia, Mar. 7-29. 







Panama, United States of 

 Colombia, to W reck Bay, 

 Chatham Island, Gala- 

 pa iros Archipelago, Mar. 

 30-Apr. 14. 



112 



97 



105 



12 



57 



83 



90 



76 



29.80 



29.94 



29.66 



S. 74° W. 145 m.. 



8 



Wreck Bay, Chatham Isl- 

 and, Galapagos Archi- 

 p el ago, to Acapnlco, 

 Mexico, Apr. 15-23. 



28 



90 



15 



50 



34 



83 



87 



79 



29.78 



29.88 



29.68 



N.61° W.116m. 



1 



Acapulco, Mexico, to La 

 Paz, Lower California, 

 Apr. 24-29. 



24 



55 







44 



20 



79.5 



88 



71 



29.83 



29.94 



29.72 



N. 78° W.19m.. 







La Paz, Lower California, 

 to San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia, Apr. 30-May 11. 



23 



6 



3 



240 



12 



65.5 



80 



51 



30.06 



30.22 



29.90 



N".75°E.40ni... 



1 



* Inclusive. 



REPORT OF THE ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT (ABSTRACT). 



[From January 1 to October 24, 1887, by Passed Assistant Engineer G. W. Baird, 



U. S. Navy.] 



Up to the 24th of October, the date of my detachment from the Al- 

 batross, the ship had steamed 1,745.9 knots on her coarse, in addition to 

 the distance made while dredgiug and sounding. The vessel has not 

 been detained in port through any fault of the machinery ; the casual- 

 ties have been few ; the working of the machinery has been good. 



Synopsis of the Steam Log to October 23. 



Mean point of cutting off steam in the high pressure cylinders, from com- 

 mencement of stroke inches.. 16. 1 



Mean point of cutting off steam in the low pressure cylinders, from the 



commencement of stroke inches.. 17.6 



Mean number of holes (one-eighth) of throttle- valve open 4.5 



Mean vacuum in the condenser inches.. 23. 16 



Mean pressure in boilers, per square inch pounds . . 60. 6 



Mean pressure in receivers, per square inch above zero do 20. 2 



