On this day: December 17
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on December 17, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1836 · Addison: Crew traded ashore at Horn's Island.
- 1848 · Abigail: Planned to go ashore for coconuts.
- 1851 · Fortune: Two crew members fell sick with pox.
- 1852 · Active: Archer Fowler discharged and paid off.
- 1824 · Victory: Caught a whale.
- 1827 · Galatea: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1830 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
- 1835 · Addison: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1841 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
- 1842 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
- 1845 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
- 1849 · Draco: Keeper lamented lack of whales and homesickness.
- 1834 · Bengal: Ship battered by massive seas and leaking.
- 1844 · Draco: Keeper prayed for oil.
- 1864 · Brewster: Keeper mocked the captain's whale identification.