The Voyage of the Jeannette; The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. de Long, Lieutenant-Commander U. S. N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881
The Voyage of the Jeannette; The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. de Long, Lieutenant-Commander U. S. N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...all hands on deck until midnight, and then sent one watch below; and, in view of the hard work everybody had been called on to perform, I served out two ounces of brandy to each man. Nindemann stood down in the fore peak up to his knees in water, stuffing in oakum and tallow into every place from which water came. As ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...all hands on deck until midnight, and then sent one watch below; and, in view of the hard work everybody had been called on to perform, I served out two ounces of brandy to each man. Nindemann stood down in the fore peak up to his knees in water, stuffing in oakum and tallow into every place from which water came. As fast as he stuffed it in below the water came out above; and when finally he got so far that but a little water trickled out from the bow-filling, it forced its way out through the ceiling. We put Alexey and Aneguin to work digging out the ice under the bow, to try to find out where the injury was and of what nature. But after they had dug away some of the pieces which had been piled up, the water flowed over the ice beneath and froze, and effectually stopped work. No sign of injury could be seen outside, and nothing inside but the flowing of the water, and, as far as may be judged from appearances, it would seem that the ship's forefoot has been broken off or twisted, starting the garboard strakes. Until we can free the ship from water we can do nothing towards building a water-tight bulkhead across the fore peak, and thus keeping the water leak under control of the hand-pumps. As the water will not come aft readily to the steam-pump, we must get a steam-pump forward to it, for men cannot stand pumping from now till spring. Fortunately we have a pump in the engine-room which we can move forward to the old galley-room and connect by a long series of pipes to the main boiler, and that is suggested by Melville and commenced to be put into execution at midnight. Everything was carried on regularly, quietly, and systematically. There was no excitement and no confusion. If we had to leave the ship, our sledges were ready on the poop packed with fort...
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