On this day: July 17
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 17, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Traded with the islanders and their king.
- 1827 · Rosalie: Caught a whale.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Left sick crewman ashore.
- 1833 · Bengal: Keeper commented on shipboard life.
- 1834 · Bengal: Breaches off the bow.
- 1844 · Solon: Saw drift stuff of all sorts.
- 1845 · Draco: Keeper lamented seeing no whales.
- 1904 · Karluk: Fleet stopped and tied to the ice.
- 1832 · Parker: Saw squid.
- 1851 · Pacific: Saw grampuses and lowered boats.
- 1852 · Fortune: Charles Bray and Collings off duty.
- 1878 · E. H. Hatfield: Boiled out two caught blackfish (pilot whales).