On this day: November 22

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 22, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1827 · Rosalie: Rescued a crew and burned their ship.
2. 1847 · Mary and Susan: Stolen goods found with two boys.
3. 1827 · Rosalie: Rescued crew from abandoned sinking ship.
4. 1861 · Jireh Perry: Abandoned a dryskin whale.
5. 1865 · Brewster: Rigging shrouds cut through by gear.
6. 1831 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
7. 1841 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
8. 1850 · Fortune: Caught a pilot whale.
9. 1827 · Rosalie: Sympathized with the shipwrecked crew.
10. 1832 · Bengal: Keeper noted crew was discouraged.
11. 1833 · Parker: Keeper hoped not to despair.
12. 1853 · Active: Keeper found chronometer was off.
13. 1826 · Rosalie: Tried out a blackfish (a pilot whale).
14. 1851 · Elizabeth: Saw a school of porpoises.

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