log-slate

I opened and shut a drawer under my desk, on which a filled-up log-slate lay wide open in its wooden frame waiting to be copied neatly into the sort of book I was accustomed to write with care, the ship's log-book.

A Personal Record 1919

I opened and shut a drawer under my desk, on which a filled-up log-slate lay wide open in its wooden frame waiting to be copied neatly into the sort of book I was accustomed to write with care, the ship's log-book.

Some Reminiscences Joseph Conrad 1890

I opened and shut a drawer under my desk, on which a filled-up log-slate lay wide open in its wooden frame waiting to be copied neatly into the sort of book I was accustomed to write with care, the ship's log-book.

A Personal Record Joseph Conrad 1890

That night, lying flat on her back on the deck with a quadrant to her eye, she "got a star and brought it down to the horizon," and sat up under the reeking lamp in the cabin nearly the whole night ciphering and ciphering till she had filled up the four sides of the log-slate with her calculations.

Moran of the Lady Letty Frank Norris 1886

The last entry on the log-slate had been made at eight o'clock on the previous morning; and the log-book had been written-up as far as noon on the day preceding that.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

He succeeded in finding the log-book, log-slate, and the captain's desk, with all of which he proceeded on board the _Flying Cloud_.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

The Blanchita passed Cape Datu at ten in the evening, and the second mate made a note of it on the log-slate.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

Then he went to the wheel, and read the entries made on the log-slate.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

The wind continued to blow fresh from the south and south-west during the rest of the day and the succeeding night; and the log-slate showed ten and eleven knots until midnight, when the wind hauled round to the westward, and soon came strong from that quarter.

Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Oliver Optic 1859

At three in the morning the yacht was off the island of Sirhassen, of which a note was made on the log-slate.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859