On this day: November 25

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 25, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1831 · Parker: Watch found asleep at the wheel.
2. 1824 · Victory: Caught a whale.
3. 1831 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
4. 1834 · Addison: Caught a sperm whale.
5. 1843 · Jefferson: Caught 2 right whales.
6. 1861 · Jireh Perry: Caught a whale.
7. 1831 · Parker: Keeper mocked the sleeping watch.
8. 1834 · Bengal: Three men needed at the wheel.
9. 1850 · Draco: Heavy gale and hail squalls.
10. 1905 · Karluk: Caught a seal in sub-zero weather.
11. 1850 · Fortune: Crew caught a porpoise.
12. 1904 · Karluk: Encountered ice.

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