On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield.

  • William C. Redfield
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1846
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Credit: On three several hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their relations to the northers of Mexico and Central America, with notices of other storms / by W.C. Redfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cape St. George ; a. m., winds W., S.W., S., S. S. E., 2, b. c, bar. 3040 : p.m., winds S. by W., 3, S. S. E. and S. E., 4, b. c.; anchored under shelter of Cape St. George. Oct. 4th, weighed for Gut of Canso; 2 a. M., winds S. E. by S , 5, 6, b. c.; 6 a. m , S. E. by E , 6, 7, b. c. q.; 11 a. m., S. E., 6, b. c.; bar. 30-20: p. »., winds S. S. E., 7, c. g. q.; 5 p. m., S. S. E., 7; ends S. S. E., 7, c. g. r.; strong gales and heavy rain. Oct. 5th—for and in Gut of Canso ; 1 a. M., winds S. E. by S., 8, c. q. r.; 4 a. m., S. S. E., 6, q.; 6 a. m., S., 5, c. b.; 8 a. m. S. W. 4, b. c.; noon, W. by S., 3, bar. 2930 : p. M. winds W., 1 to 5, b. c. ; anchored in Ship Harbor, Gut of Canso. Oct. 6th, a. m., winds W., 2, 5, bar. 2975 : p. m., winds W., 4, 3, 2 ; calm, easterly, 2, b. c.; ends off Cape Canso. Oct. 7th, running from Cape Canso for Halifax, wind easterly, 4, b. c.; lost sight of light at 1-15 a. m. ; 4 a. m. wind 6, b. c.-c. r.; at 6 30 double reefed fore and three reefed main-topsail; 6 a.m., E. by N., 6—J, o. r. c.; at 930 furled topsail, down top-gallant yards and housed top-gallant masts ; 10 a. m., gale 10, q. r. c.; at 11 gale E. N. E., 10 ; hove toon larboard tack; course from 4 to 11, W., 8 to 11 knots; noon, gale 10; bar. 2890 ; Sambro Light, N. 82, W. 25 miles. [Lat. 44° 21', Ion. 63°, 132 miles L. The west- ward run from off Cape Canso increased the distance from the axis line, and appears to have produced a change of one or two points in the direction of the gale.] p. m., lying to, struck mizen-topmast; 2 p. m., gale N. E., 9, o. g. r.; 4 p. M-, 9, 8, o. g. r. ; 6 p. m., N. W. by N., 8, o. g.; from 9 to 12, N. VV. by W., 8, 7, o. g. Oct. 8th, a. m., winds N. W., 6, 6, 5, VV. N. W., 4, c. g, c.; at 5 a.m. began to make sail; noon, bar. 2990: p.m., winds VV. N. VV. to W., 4, 3, 4, b. c.; ends with Sambro Light 8 miles distant. 143. Sctar. Actress, in Little Canso Harbor, S. E. point of Nova Scotia, lat. 45° 20', Ion. 60° 53', [about 98 miles L.J gale commenced nearly at S. E., and after blowing near 12 hours hauled steadily by the IN. to N. VV. 144. II. 31. ship Pique, Capt. 31. Stopford, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Oct. 6th, 4 a. m., bar. 29 36, wind N. W. by N. 4; noon, lat. 47° 59', Ion. 63° 18', bar. 29-65, winds N.W-, by N., 5; 3 p. M., W., 4, b. c, bar. 29-75; 8 p. m., N.W., 4, bar. 29-90; 10 p. m., IS. E., 2 ; midnight, E., 3. Oct. 7th, 3 a. m., wind E. by S.; daylight, land of Cape Breton Island on the weather bow ; 720 a. m., single reefed ; 8 a. m. bar. 29-63, wind S. E. by E. (mag- netic) 5, c. r. m.; 9. \. M., bar. 29 54 ; in top-gallant sails, close reefed the spanker, down jib ; 9 30, island of Justicoe bore E. S. E. one mile, in 2d reefs ; 1030, tacked ; run for and at 11 A. M. anchored under the island, wind E. by IS1. 7, c. r. g.; [Justicoe, or Just au Corps, is in lat. 46=, Ion. 61° 37', about 135 miles L.] noon, bar. 29-40; 1 p. m., wind E.IM. E., 7, o. g. r. f; bar. 2929 ; 2-15 p. m., wind 8, weighed anchor and run for Gut of Canso under courses, staysail, and close reefed spanker ; 3 P. m., bar. 29-19, wind N. E., 10, o. m. d. q.; [at or near crisis of gale, about 120 miles L.] 315, split and blew away part of the fore- sail ; 4 P. M., wind N. E., 9, o q., split main-staysail; 430, came to anchor 1 miles within the Gut of Canso, [say lat. 45° 39', Ion. 61° 23', about 120 miles L.J; 5 p. m., bar. 29 29, wind N. E., 8, q. m. ; 6 p. m., wind N., 7 ; 7 p. M., N., 6, c. q. ; 8 p. M„ N. by VV.; 9 r. m., N. by W., 5, m., bar. 2948 ; 10 p. M., N. W., 6, m. r. q.: midnight, N. W., 6, b. q. m. Oct. 8th, 2 a. m., wind N. by W., 5, c. q. r.; 4 a. m., bar. 2977; 6 a. m., N. W., 6, c. q. r.; 8 A. m., W. xN. VV., 5, b. c. q., bar. 2987, weighed anchor and made sail out of the Gut; 10-30, anchored in Inhabitants Bay [lat. 45° 34', Ion. 61° 16';J noon, bar. 2985, wind N. N, VV., 5, b. c. q. r.; p. »., wind N. N. W. to VV. The Pique also encountered the gale of the 4th and 5th, in the St. Lawrence, but I have no copy of the log for this period. 145. Schr. Normal, sailed from the Labrador Coast, Oct. 6th, with a fresh breeze from N., bound for St. Johns, IS. F. The wind freshened during the following night, and hauled to E. N. E. October 7th, it increased gradually to a gale from E. S. E. Could not weather Cape Bonavista, and having split the sails, bore away for shelter among the islands in the hay and repaired damages, [about lat. 48° 45', Ion. 53° 45', 36 miles L. ? 3Iag. var. about 25° W.J At this anchorage the gale is said to have changed by the N. to N. W. Having thus followed the gale on the left side of its axis to the extent of our reports, we now resume the accounts from the right side of the storm, from Bermuda onward.