On this day: April 17
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 17, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1906 · Karluk: Violent prisoner threatened to kill officers.
- 1834 · Parker: Casks moved to find a leak.
- 1851 · Fortune: Harpooner Jack Hill was discharged.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Heavy seas swept away two whaleboats.
- 1848 · Abigail: Caught a whale.
- 1850 · Draco: Keeper expressed deep homesickness.
- 1905 · Karluk: Henery left for the country.
- 1834 · Bengal: Saw many small white birds.
- 1845 · Draco: Saw jumpers (probably leaping dolphins).
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Boy Dick returned to duty.