On this day: December 30
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on December 30, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1878 · Draco: Whaleboat capsized during chase.
- 1838 · Edward Quesnel: A heavy sea stove a whaleboat.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Crewman died of consumption.
- 1848 · Abigail: Captain, wife, and baby visited another ship.
- 1836 · Addison: Crewman crushed by rolling cask.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Went ashore at Tristan da Cunha.
- 1863 · Brewster: Whale lost through carelessness.
- 1865 · Admiral Blake: Exchanged cheers with the lightship crew.
- 1879 · Draco: Crew unpacked oil to stop leak.
- 1824 · Victory: Caught a whale.
- 1849 · Draco: The keeper prayed for oil.
- 1833 · Bengal: Keeper complained of widespread aches and fever.
- 1836 · Addison: Violent gale dismasts the ship.
- 1844 · Draco: Lamented two months without catching a whale.
- 1845 · Draco: Keeper prayed for whales.
- 1846 · Draco: Two crew members remained sick.
- 1846 · Charles Phelps: Loose whale bit through harpoon line.
- 1848 · Draco: Keeper despaired after a missed whale.
- 1848 · Draco: Antonio turned out for missing a whale.
- 1843 · Jefferson: Boiled out blackfish (pilot whales).
- 1846 · Draco: Boy off duty with venereal disease.
- 1851 · Pacific: Boiled out blackfish (pilot whales) blubber.