On this day: December 2
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on December 2, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Crewmen stole visiting boat and deserted.
- 1827 · Galatea: Gale with lightning halted work on whale.
- 1844 · Edward: Caught a shark and saw skipjacks.
- 1850 · Fortune: Crew members recovered from illness and injury.
- 1852 · Active: Caught 3 sperm whales.
- 1853 · Fortune: Crewman suffered a fit.
- 1863 · Brewster: Crewman got drunk and caused trouble.
- 1827 · Galatea: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1832 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
- 1835 · Addison: Boats returned loaded with yams.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Boat sent to trade up the bay.
- 1853 · Fortune: George White absent ashore.
- 1833 · Bengal: Keeper expressed disgust at his shipmates.
- 1834 · Bengal: Daylight lasted all night near Cape Horn.
- 1846 · Indian Chief: Crew spent the day doing nothing.
- 1852 · Fortune: Jim and cook reported about the same.
- 1853 · Active: Saw grampuses near Flores.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Endured an ugly, heavy sea.
- 1905 · Karluk: Subzero blizzard hit the ship.
- 1851 · Fortune: Boats brought back a few fish.