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Saturday 9th – Fine breeze in the morning
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died away about midday. dull. Our latitude
at noon was 40° 21’ South, longitude 0° 23 east.
STANDARDISED
Saturday 9th
Fine breeze in the morning, died away about midday. Dull. Our latitude at noon was 40° 21’ south, longitude 0° 23 east.
HENRY SCHOFIELD DIARY
Jan[uar]y 9th fine & cold
Dreaming of shipwreck & that my mother had a baby at home. Saw porpoises with white fins & noses and stormy petrels. The sea was very rough. For dinner rice & salt beef. Begun to knock & bruise biscuit small for to make flour of & Hadfield[1] begun to be captain. Going about 9 knots. Was about 8000 miles from New Zealand in Greenwich Longitude today.
Notes
Further reading
“What is the Prime Meridian – and why is it in Greenwich?“, Royal Museums Greenwich.
![The earth, cut in halves along the Greenwich meridian, showing some of the meridians. Illustration from North America: with an especially full treatment of the United States and its dependencies, but Ralph S. Tarr and Frank Morton McMurray, p6. [Internet Archive]](http://mermaid1864.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/prime-meridian-ft.png)
The earth, cut in halves along the Greenwich meridian, showing some of the meridians. Illustration from North America: with an especially full treatment of the United States and its dependencies, by Ralph S. Tarr and Frank Morton McMurray (Macmillan: 1900), p113. [Internet Archive]
