Distance. Feb. 19 Wind, W.S.W. and N.W. moderate 200 miles. 20 „ N.N.E. and N.E. strong breezes with snow 328 „ 21 „ E.S.E. with snow storms 145 „ 22 „ E.S.E., a gale with high cross sea and rain 114 „ 23 „ N., strong gales to E.S.E.; ends moderate 110 „ 24 „ S.E., moderate 312 „ 25 „ E.S.E. and S.E., fresh breezes with thick weather 285 „ 26 „ W.S.W., moderate 295 „ 27 „ W.N.W. „ 260 „ 28 „ W. and N.W., steady breezes 306 „ March 1 „ South. Strong gales; bore away for the North Channel; carried away the fore topsail and lost jib; hove the log several times and found the ship going through the water at the rate of 18 to 18½ knots; lee rail under water and rigging slack 436 „ 2 „ South, first part moderate, latter part light and calm. 3 „ Light winds and calms. 8 „ Light S.E. winds and calms; at 7 a.m. off Great Orme’s Head. 12 noon off the N.W. lightship. On 28th February at noon she was in Lat. 52° 38′ N., Long. 22° 45′ W., and her run of 436 nautical miles from that position to her noon position on 1st March gives her the greatest day’s work ever accomplished, to the best of my belief, by a sailing ship. The 1st March entry “Wind south—bore away for the North Channel,” has misled some nautical critics, who have plotted her as being up with Rathlin Island when she bore away, without noticing the direction of the wind. The log is rather ambiguously worded, but her run of 436 miles puts her some 30 miles west of Achill Head—and she then bore away north, bringing the wind on the starboard quarter. If she had been off Rathlin Island she would have had to bring the wind on the starboard bow for the course through the North Channel. Captain Charles McDonald always hoped to get a day’s run of 500 miles out of the _James Baines_, and firmly believed she could do it; but he never succeeded in beating the _Lightning’s_ records.