On this day: November 17
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 17, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1842 · Jefferson: Fore spencer gaff broke in gale.
- 1846 · Draco: Crewman critically ill with dysentery.
- 1851 · Pacific: Lost the whale's head.
- 1832 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
- 1836 · Addison: Took aboard a passenger for Tahiti.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Anchored among American and Russian ships.
- 1851 · Pacific: Caught a right whale.
- 1861 · Jireh Perry: Caught a whale.
- 1864 · Brewster: Grampuses seen during a calm.
- 1833 · Bengal: Saw porpoises.
- 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Finished boiling blackfish (pilot whales).
- 1846 · Draco: Boy off duty with venereal disease.
- 1905 · Karluk: Got a load of ice.