On this day: December 7
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on December 7, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1832 · Bengal: Whale stove a boat.
- 1834 · Bengal: Mate fought with a Portuguese boy.
- 1851 · Fortune: Traded for coconuts and took on islanders.
- 1864 · Brewster: Captain badly cut by an adze.
- 1841 · Rowena: Caught 3 whales.
- 1847 · Mary and Susan: Main topgallant yard broke in the slings.
- 1848 · Abigail: Gale blew away a staysail.
- 1853 · Fortune: Two crewmen locked in the fort.
- 1831 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
- 1832 · Bengal: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a pilot whale.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Caught a whale.
- 1853 · Fortune: Carpenter went ashore to stay.
- 1862 · Jireh Perry: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1847 · Draco: Sailed over charted shoal with green water.
- 1848 · Draco: Keeper lamented their terrible luck.
- 1848 · Nimrod: Flocks of birds scavenged blubber scraps.
- 1869 · Abraham Barker: First mate came on board.
- 1904 · Karluk: Subzero cold and hauling ice.
- 1848 · Nimrod: Saw black haggetts around ship.
- 1848 · Nimrod: Saw albatrosses feeding near ship.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Raised grampus but saw them only once.