854 Eighteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms, [Aug. 



guns and every tiling on deck ; till midnight, wind and sea dreadful from N. W. 

 to W. N. W. 



loth Oct. — Breeze gradually moderate towards daylight. At noon by Obser- 

 vation in Lat. 19° 58' N. ; Longitude not remembered. Pilot station bearing 

 about N. N. E. 



Ship Futtay Alum bound to Calcutta. Abstract of her log forwarded 

 by Mr. Haggard of the H. C. P. S. 



This log is unfortunately only an abstract and I am unable to calcu- 

 late from it the ship's position on the different days of the Cyclone. I 

 can therefore give but a brief summary of it without placing the track 

 on the chart. 



It is stated only in reference to her position that she was " on the 

 day before the hurricane in Lat. 17° 58' North; Long. 86° 34' East, 

 by Chr. steering to the N. E. b. N. and N. East. I take this to have 

 been at noon of the 11th, though the wind is marked on that day as 

 at N. b. E. | E. to N. \ E. Bar. 29.60 ; so that the ship could only 

 have been making about an E. N. E. course at the most. 



On the 12th Oct.— 4 a. m. Bar. 29.56; at 7 a. m. 29.50; strong breezes N. 

 N. E. Noon reefed foresail and making other preparations. 1 p. m. wind was 

 N. N. E. ; Bar. 29.48; and by 5 p. m. N. W. and Bar. 29.46 ; weather very 

 thick with hard rain. 11.30 hove too. Midnight wind south, blowing hard, 

 lost a cutter, Bar. 29.40. 



13th Oct. — Daylight wind S. E. ; Bar. 29.34. Heavy gales. 11 a. m. Bar. 

 29.30; hurricane; lost topmasts Bar. 29.26 ; wind S. E. Noon furious hurri- 

 cane S. E. Bar. 29.22. p. m. the same awful appearance in the weather, wind 

 S. E. Bar. 29.22. Lost gig and mizenmast. Midnight wind S. E. Bar. 29.26. 



14th. — Daylight increasing. 6 a. m. wind S. E. Bar. 29.38; noon 29.44. 

 p. m. wind S. S. E. Bar. 29.44. 



From this time the gale moderated, but the vessel on the 14th drifted into 

 63 fs. 23' to the E. N. E. of the floating light, and was obliged to anchor, being 

 a perfect wreck. One ship, perhaps the Hope, passed her about noon of the 

 13th with a signal of distress, and another the Exmouth foundered at her anchors 

 in sight of her on the night of the 15th, — 16th. 



Abridged Log of the Ship Futtle Rozack, Capt. Andrews (No* 

 Id on the Chart), from Calcutta to Judda. Civil Time. 



The ship Futtle Rozack left Calcutta very deeply laden but, as will 

 be seen, by the able and scientific management of her commander 



