Voyage from Liverpool to Boston.
1911.
August 2
[August 2, 1911]

Irish Sea & Off south coast of Ireland
A stormy sea.

  Cloudy & sunny by turns with occasional heavy showers.
Wind about S.W. [southwest] increasing in force through day until, late in the
afternoon, it was blowing what one of our sailors called half-a-gale
or, as Glover Allen & I thought, at the rate of 30 miles an hour,
(The Captain of the "Arabic" estimated it at about 35 miles an hour)
whistling shrilly through the rigging of our steamer ("Arabic", 15000 tons),
heeling her over very decidedly and kicking up a lumpy, white-
capped sea. From the crests of "the combers wind-hounded"
the wind ever and anon tore sheets of glistening spray and
drove it far over the troubled ocean. Some of the waves broke
high enough against the sides of our ship to wet her
upper deck - fifty feet or more above the water line.

Gulls, Gannets, Manx Shearwaters Murres.

  When I came on deck at 8 A.M. there were only a 
few birds in sight save the Gulls following the steamer. Every
now & then I might see a Gannet or a Mank's Shearwater [Manx Shearwater] or
a Murre, flying low over the water, but no great numbers
of these were in sight at any time during the next three hours.