570 Researches on the Gale and Hurricane \_Svly, 



3rd June.— Wind W£S. to WbS. Bar. 29° 40', 29° 33', and 29° 40'. 

 Ther. 60° ; hard gale with violent squalls and rain, and heavy sea 

 throughout. Lat. 15° and long. 92° 14' E. 



4th June.—W'm& WbS. to WSW. Bar. 29° 40' ; hard gale, violent 

 squalls, rain and lightning ; latterly the squalls more moderate. Lat. 

 16° 19' N. long. 09° 53' E. By observation find a current to the SW. 

 at the rate of twenty miles per day for the last four days. 



5th June. — Wind WSW. to SW. strong gale and squally, but mode- 

 rating latterly, and the sea going down. Bar. 29° 40' to 29 c 56', 

 lat. 17° 59' N., long. 88° 34' E. 



No. 23. — The ship "Indian Oak," Capt Rayne, left Madras roads at 

 10 a. m. 4th June 1839, Nautical time, having a passenger on board 

 for Vizagapatam. She ran up along the coast with moderate breezes, 

 but on the night of the 5th to 6th June it was so very hazy that Capt. 

 Rayne could not obtain an observation ; the heavenly bodies being 

 obscured. His barometer fell from 29° 7' at 8 p. m. on the 5th to 29° 6' 

 at 4 a. m. on the 6th, the weather having assumed so very threatening 

 an appearance, with a heavy jerking sea rising, that he prepared 

 for bad weather, and kept under weigh whilst communicating with 

 the shore, and landing his passenger at Vizagapatam ; he had however 

 no stormy weather. This vessel's log is important as marking, together 

 with the memorandum from Masulipatam, that the gale was only 

 seen, but not felt along the coast below Juggernath. 



No. 24.— The Barque " Lady Macnaghten," Captain George Hard- 

 wick, experienced a severe gale beginning with strong squalls from the 

 West and heavy rain at noon 30th May 1839, lat. 10° 40' N. long. 

 88° E. By noon the next day, 31st May, in 12° 45' N. 87° 14' she 

 was hove too under close reefed main topsail, and continued so under 

 storm sails on the 1st, 2nd, 3nd, and 4th June; wind from WbS. to 

 SWbS. blowing a very severe gale with very heavy sea, causing the 

 vessel to labour excessively and ship water over all. At noon on 4th, 

 after which the gale moderated, she was in lat. 14° 51', long. 88° l& 

 E. and found that during the gale she had experienced a current of 

 about thirty-two miles per day to the SW. from the 31st May to the 

 4th June ; on which last day the Barometer being then at the lowest, 

 stood at 29° 17'. 



No. 25.— Brig "Petrel;' Capt. Turcan, 1^ June 1839. Nautical 

 time.— At noon in lat. 5° 13' N. long. 85° 20' E. Bar. 29° 30'. Ther. 

 92', strong breezes from WSW. and hazy weather. 



