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The barometer was falling quickly (J. D. Bischoff 29.45 at midnight 19th NE 7 backing and increasing). The centre was at noon moving about NE by N and approaching those vessels. The Barquentine Vagabond at noon about 50 miles S of Hongkong had the wind backing to NE during the evening and increasing to a fresh gale with hard squalls and a fast falling barometer. Her commander, sus- pecting a typhoon, took down the royal yards. The Michael Jebsen NW of the centre had the baro- meter falling (8 p. 29.56) the wind backing to NNE and increasing to a fresh gale with very high cross sea. The Nicoya and Carl Friedrich were about 100 miles WSW of the centre. The latter had a fresh WNW breeze increasing and backing with rain squalls, a threatening appearance to NE and a very high cross sea. The vessel was hove to at 4 p. At midnight, 19th July, the barometer read 29.53 and had ceased falling, wind W 5. The Nicoya noted the wind as a fresh NW gale at noon 19th. Fresh W breezes blew on the Coast of Annam. East of Cochinchina fresh SW breezes. N of Palawan the Memnon had strong SW breezes with rain squalls and high sea. She was about 350' SE of the centre. The N. S. de Loreto also SSE of the centre distant about 250 miles had a strong NW breeze according to the log book but this appears to be wrong probably SW should have been written. West of the Bashee Channel the Zafiro NE by E of the centre had SE 4 with heavy rain, She was steering S/E and towards evening the wind became S 3 with heavy S swell rain squalls and lightning to SW.
The centre was, at noon on the 19th July, in 18°15', 113°45′ moving NE by N and the depression was evidently increasing in intensity.
Observations for noon of July 19th:-
Bolinao,
COAST STATIONS.
ESE 360
29.76 + .01
S
2
0.
Hoihow,
NW
250
.69
.04
NE
clt.
Hongkong,
N
250
.68
.07
NE
South Cape,.
NE/E
450
.75
- .02
NNE
Fisher Island,.
NE
450
.75 + .03
NW
Breaker Point,
NNE
340
.72 .03.
ENE
Lamocks,
NNE
380
.74
.01
NE
Amoy,
NE/N 450
.76
-
.02
NE
Turnabout,
NE
600
.79
-
.02
ENE
Steep Island,
NE
900
.81
.06
SE
North Saddle,.
NE
940
.78 .07
SE
+10 += 0 62 OL
0.
C.
C.
gmd.
mr.
C.
C.
cm.
bm.
VESSELS.
S.S. Namyong,
$1
Camelot,
Sikh,
7° 21' 8 35 11 10
106° 29′
SWIS 800 29.88
SW
108 4
SW/S 700
SW
111 33
SSW 450
.81
W
>
Memnon,
13 42
117 21
SE/S
350
.76
SS W
"
Sungkiany, ...
14 30
120 16
SE
430-
.76
SW
12
N. S. de Loreto,
14 45
116 15
SSE 250
? NW
"
Cheang Chew,..
16 5
108 42
WSW 330
.62
WNW
Sh. Carl Friedrich,
17 3)
112 22
WSW 100
.56
Bq. Nicoya,
17 30
112 20
WSW 100
WNW NW
TO SŁO 2 410
5 orl.
orq.
5
q.
6
0.
rq.
S.S. Michael Jebsen,
19 44
112 34
NW/N
120
.60
NNE
Sh. J. D. Bischoff,
19 49
113 57
N
100
.57
NE
0.
Bq. Heinrich,
19 50
114 20
NNE
100
ENE
4
S.Š. Almine,
20 21
110 55
NW
220
.62
NE
"Zafiro,
21 11
118 51
NE/E
330
.74
SE
Bq. Vagabond,
S.S. Chusan,
21 26
114 1
N
200
.65
ENE
6 rq.
21 45
113 30
N
230
.67
NE
3
org.
Activ,
**
Gaelic,
?(22 0
113 30)
N
240
.67
NE
3 orq.
24 24
118 52 NE
460
.82
NE
3 op.
5 rq.
or.
increasing sea.
high sea.
fine sultry.
cross sea.
increasing sea.
heavy cross sea.
choppy sea. hard rain squalls.
sultry.
During the evening of the 19th July, the barometer at Hongkong was falling fast (at 8 p. 29.62). The wind was a fresh to strong ENE breeze, there was occasional drizzling rain and the clouds were of the R-cum type from ENE. At Victoria Peak the wind was NE 6, the direction having backed from E since the morning. At Hoihow the barometer was falling slightly during the evening with NE 3 detached clouds and thunder and lightning, but no rain fell. In S Formosa the barometer was falling (S. Cape 9 p. 29.72), the wind was ESE 2 with cloudy sky. On the SE coast, the barometer was falling moderately fast in the S part of the district with ENĚ and NE 4 and occasional rain showers. In the north part the barometer fell less quickly, the ENE wind was somewhat lighter in force, and the weather fine. On the E coast the barometer was falling slightly with SE light breezes and fine weather. At Bolinao, the barometer was steady (at 6 p. 29.72) with light S and SSE breezes and overcast weather. The clouds came from SSW.
On July 20th, during the morning hours, the barometer continued to fall at Hongkong and the wind backed through NE to N force 3. The weather was overcast, and, between 3 and 4.30 a., a slight thunderstorm passed East of the Colony appearing in the NE and disappearing in the SE. The direction of the lower clouds had backed with the wind. The lowest reading of the barometer occurred at 3 p. (29.42 actual, 29.45 corrected for daily variation). At the time it was almost calm, the anemo- graph only recording a velocity of 6 miles between 2.30 and 3.30 p. the direction being N by W. The latter, however, rapidly backed to WNW and increased to a velocity of 23 miles per hour at 8 p.
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