479
91
VESSELS.
"
Sch. Santa Cruz, S.S. Tahsany,
Cosmopolit,
(16° 0′
127° 0')?
SW
orq.
10 21
121 59
W
6
orq.
moderate sea.
13 15
120 21
29.66
NW
4
0.
"
Pakshan,
14 46
112
6
.79
NNE
orq.
heavy sea.
""
Bombay,
14 48
112 44
.77
NNE
rough sea.
77
Bantam,
18 1
113 43
NE by N
0.
""
Ravenna,
19 23
113
29
.83
NNE
d
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Zafiro,
19 12
116 20
.69
N
77
Airlie,
19 43
116 17
+
N by E
C.
Don Juan,
20 24
115 42
.74
NE
heavy sea. high sea. increasing sea. high sea. moderate sea.
» Sungkiang
21 34
114 40
.79
N
b.
high sea.
""
Verona,
23 20
117 41
.78
NNE
fine, high sea.
Empress of China,...
23 48
118 14
.85
NE
7
C.
>>
Empress of Japan....... 24 23
118 52
.79
NE
high sea.
"Choysang,
25 47
120 20
.92
ENE
7
do.
22
Taisang,
26 19
119 58
.90
NNE
Protos,
26 31
120 53
.96
NNE
do.
ל
Nanchang,
27 12
121 19
.95
NNE
6
b.
""
City of Peking,
27 17
123 26
.95
NNE
5
ة
0.
moderate sea and swell
"
Bokhara,
(27 50
122
0 )?
NE
6
H.I.A.M. Fr. Fasana,
28 0
121 50
30.00
NE
7
S.S. Cyclops,
28 5
121 55
29.97
NNE
6
Phra Nang,
28 28
123 44
.96
27
Fu Ping,
32 16 122 56
NNE NE
5
b.
b.
On the 9th October the centre of the typhoon was in 19°, 1234 and it was still moving north westward. The following is a summary of the weather prevailing at the coast stations on that day. In Luzon the barometer continued falling during the morning hours with gentle SW to W breezes and cloudy weather in S. Luzon. At Bolinao (NW Luzon) the wind increased in force from N with rain and at 8 a. it had backed to NW by N and blew a fresh gale, the lower clouds coming from the same direction as the wind. During the afternoon and evening the wind moderated and was from NW and WNW force 4, the weather being squally and showery and the barometer commencing to rise. Around the Gulf of Tonking pressure had not changed since the previous day, but during the evening the barometer commenced falling. N to NE moderate and fresh breezes with fine weather prevailed. The barometer was falling on the SE coast of China and in Formosa moderately fast at Hongkong, but very rapidly at those stations near S. Formosa and particularly so at S. Cape where the decrease amounted to a quarter of an inch during the previous 24 hours. On the East Coast the observations show a slight rise of the barometer since noon of the 8th October while along the Yangtze pressure had varied but little.
Gradients for NE winds had become very steep and were increasing between the northern entrance to the Formosa Channel and S. Cape and N to NE fresh and strong gales increasing with high sea prevailed in the Channel during the day, the sky being partially clouded. At night the sky became overcast and a whole NNE gale was blowing at Turnabout and Fisher Island. The observations recorded at S. Cape between October 9th at I a. and October 11th midnight are annexed. They show that the barometer continued to fall very rapidly during the evening and that the wind had increased to a fresh gale from N by E with rain squalls. Very heavy continuous rain was falling at Tamsui in N Formosa with a strong ENE breeze, the barometer falling but moderately fast until the evening when the fall was accelerated and the wind became NNE 10. Very fine weather prevailed at the East Coast stations with chiefly moderate to fresh NE breezes. At N. Saddle a moderate NE gale. At Hongkong the weather was very fine and the temperature high, the mean of the 24 hours being 79°. 1. A gentle NNW breeze prevailed and some sm-cum. cloud came from N. At Victoria Peak there was a fresh NNW breeze. The mean temperature for some of the stations on October 9th was as follows:- Hongkong 79°, Swatow 81, Lamocks 76°, S. Cape 77°, Fisher Island 74°, Chapel Island 74°, Turnabout 71°, Foochow 74°, Steep Island 70°, North Saddle 68°, Kiukiang 70°. At Hongkong and Swatow temperature was in excess, at the other stations it was about normal. The weather experienced by vessels at sea on the 9th October was as follows:
The schooner Santa Cruz at noon in the approximate position of 16°, 127° had strong SW winds and decreasing sea. The Bombay and Pakshan in about 15°, 1121 had fresh NNE breezes, squally wet weather and rough sea with almost steady barometer (on Bombay at 8 p. 29.75). Several vessels to the South of Hongkong in the northern part of the China Sea had strong NNE breezes and moderate gales with the direction backing a little towards evening as they steamed northwards. A high sea was running, the sky was partially clouded and the barometer falling slightly. Vessels approaching Hongkong from the Eastward had strong NNE breezes backing and decreasing. The character of the weather in and near the Formosa Channel may be seen from the detailed logs of some vessels and also from the observations made at the lighthouse stations which are appended. In general it may be stated that during the evening NNE fresh to whole gales blew throughout the Channel, the force being somewhat lighter in the southern portion. Whole gales were blowing between Fisher Island and Turnabout, and there was a very turbulent sea. The Choysang, Protos, Empress of Japan, Formosa, Ly-ce-mun and Glengarry were between Amoy and Turnabout during the evening and experienced