Wild and Hudson, Greenstreet and Cheetham, Worsley and Crean, took the deck watches, and the Chief Engineer and Second Engineer kept watch and watch with three of the A.B.'s for stokers.
The staff and the forward hands, with the exception of the cook, the carpenter and his mate, were on "watch and watch"-- that is, four hours on deck and four hours below, or off duty.

The carpenter was busy making a light punt, which might prove useful in the navigation of lanes and channels.

At 11 a.m.we gave the engines a gentle trial turn astern.

Everything worked well after eight months of frozen inactivity, except that the bilge-pump and the discharge proved to be frozen up; they were cleared with some little difficulty.

The engineer reported that to get steam he had used one ton of coal, with wood-ashes and blubber.