11th August 1898

Thursday

Divers and boats  away diving 1 o'clock divers returned to the ship bringing the lost cutter with them, found a lot of small fittings belonging to the pump & dress in the boat owing to the depth of the water the divers found it very long job as they could not remain long down on account of the pressure of water, it took 1/4 of hour to get down, Captain was very pleased witht he way the Divers was doing their work them fell in aft and spoke to them about the difficult work entrusted to them, he gave them the priviledge of getting whatever they liked from his steward in the way of eatable during the time they was diving, hoisted the cutter up to the davits turned her in and then piped down for remainder of day.