On this day: November 21

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 21, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1827 · Rosalie: Penguin sprang a severe leak.
2. 1835 · Addison: Tiller broke in a gale.
3. 1845 · Charles Phelps: Two runaway crewmen returned to ship.
4. 1846 · Charles Phelps: Rough seas tore away the bow boat.
5. 1850 · Fortune: Six crewmen fell sick.
6. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught a pilot whale.
7. 1827 · Galatea: Caught a right whale.
8. 1830 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
9. 1841 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
10. 1863 · Brewster: Caught 2 pilot whales.
11. 1904 · Karluk: Dogs arrived from Point Barrow.
12. 1832 · Bengal: Reflected on hope during hard times.
13. 1847 · Draco: Three months out with no oil.
14. 1848 · Nimrod: Keeper grew weary of writing the same entry.
15. 1844 · Draco: Saw a quantity of squid.
16. 1904 · Karluk: Thirty-four dogs arrived at the ship.

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