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The outer
and running 7 knots. The barometer fell at the rate of 1 tenths per hour which indicates a gradient of about 0.50 inch in 15 miles. At 2 a. on the 21st the foretopmast staysail blew away. She was then heading SW (barometer 28.74) in 14° 30′, 125° 0'. They tried to keep her before the wind but at 4 a. (barometer 28.44) she broached to and was hove down on her beam ends so far that the lee yard arms of the fore and mainyard were half under water. The port lifeboat, the cutter and everything moveable on deck went overboard, and the sea broke in under the topgallant forecastle and filled every cabin forward with water. They cleared away the jib to pay her off but it blew away. jib blew away afterwards. They set the maintopmast staysail-same fate. They loosed the lee clew of the forelowertopsail but it blew away at once, clean torn from the boltrope. The weather side of the foresail was loosed and the whole sail blew away. These were all new sail. The ship was on her first voyage out. At 4.30 a. the barometer began to rise, after a slight lull lasting a few minutes. Then the typhoon began with increased fury from SW. At 6 a. the barometer (28.94) had risen inch in 2 hours. The ship remained on her beam ends, in a most critical situation, the hatches being likely to wash away as they were all under water, At 7 a. they cut away fore and maintop- gallant mast and began to clear away the wreck. They bent a new foretopmast staysail and jib to try and pay her off. But she would not answer her helm. They cut away the rigging of the mizen-
topgallant mast but the mast did not carry away. At noon on the 21st (barometer 29.24) it was reckoned that the ship had been carried 104 miles in the past 24 hours in her circular course round the centre. In the afternoon it blew with great violence and the sea was tremendous. The ship remained on her beam ends. It began to moderate at 4 p. At midnight barometer 29.34. The topgallant yards and masts were under the ship and striking heavily, though all hands had been trying to clear away the wreckage. At daylight on the 22nd there were 11 inches of water in the hold. The lee rail was out of the water and the gale abating. At noon she was in 15° 49′, 124° 41′. At noon on the 23rd she was in 16° 19′, 124° 34' with a list to port of 6°. There was a moderate S to SSW wind but a heavy confused sea (barometer 29.64) She ran for Cebu as the rudder pintles were damaged.
At noon on the 19th the centre must have been in about 14°, 129, at noon on the 20th in 141⁄2o, 1261° and at noon on the 21st in 15, 124°. It blew with typhoon force within 50 miles of the centre, and a strong gale within 100 miles. To the north of the centre it blew a strong breeze within 600 miles.
We have the following observations made at 10 a. and 4 p. on the 21st and at 10 a. on the 22nd in Luzon:-
Lavag,
...18° 13'
120° 37'
Vigan,
17 34
120 24
10a. on 21st.
29.67? NNW 3 0.
.57 N
3 0.
Bayombong,
.16 29
?
.53 SSW
1 0.
4p. on 21st.
29.27? NW .48 NE .39 SW
3 0.
10a. on 22nd.
29.63 NW 3 0.
4 0.
.64 NNW 3 c.
1 o.
Bolinao,
16 23
119 55
.58
N
5 0.
.54
N
7 0.
.52 SSW 2 0. 71 NNW 5 0.
S. Isidro,
.15 22
.57
S
1 o.
.48 W
2 c.
.69 WSW 1 o.
Pta. Restinga,
...14 16
.62
SW
3 0.
.57
SW
5 0.
Pta. Santiago,
...13 46
120 40
.65 W
6 0.
.59
W
6 0.
Tayabas,
........14 1
.14 2
121 35 121 56
.56 SSW 1 0. .57 W 2 0.
.50 SW
2 0. .50 WSW 2 0.
2 c. I e.
Antimonan,
.74 SW 4 0. .76 W 6 0.
SW .69 SW
On the 21st a strong SW gale was experienced on board the S.S. Cosmopolit moored at double anchor in Iloilo. The barque Harvard at noon on the 20th in 20°, 118° had strong NE wind and very bad sea continuing next day. On the 22nd in 20° 48′, 118° 50′ she experienced a moderate gale from NE/E with cloudy and squally weather and drizzling rain. At midnight it had backed to WNW and blew a fresh gale (strongest at 1 a. on the 23rd). On the 23rd it blew moderately froin W and the barometer rose.
SOUTH CAPE.
November 22, Noon 29.58
3p.
.53
6p.
.50
ZZZ
empd.
כל
N
cm.
9p. Midt. 23, 3a. 6a.
.54 NNW
'
4
++
.54 NNW .50 NW .52 WNW
4
*
6
7 cpq.
November 23, 9a. 29.57 WNW
Noon .62 WNW 8
WNW
opq.
"7
cmq.
WNW
cin.
3p. .60 6p. .66 WNW
9p. .76 Midt. .82 NW
H.M.S. Pullas was at anchor in Tatsang Bay (Northern Pescadores), which is exposed chiefly to winds between NNW and NNE. The following observations were made:-
Nov. 21,.
4 p. 29.81 NNE
5
0q.
21,
Midt.
.78
7
22,
22,
4 a. Noon
.74
.66
22, ......
4 p.
.55 NE
22,
8 p.
.59
22,
Midt.
.61
N/W
Nov. 23,
23,
23,
8 a. Noon
4 a. 29.63 NNW
.73 N .78 NNW
od
23,
4 p.
.74 NW
b
23,
8 p.
.72 SW
23,
Midt.
.86
W
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