On this day: November 4

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 4, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Boat slightly stove by a sperm whale.
2. 1842 · Rowena: Bow boat stove by a whale.
3. 1832 · George Porter: Lost the whale's head.
4. 1852 · Fortune: Keeper fell ill with diarrhea.
5. 1834 · Addison: Caught a whale.
6. 1842 · Rowena: Caught 2 whales.
7. 1831 · Parker: Keeper complained of carelessly broken boat.
8. 1846 · Draco: Keeper recorded measurements of a large whale.
9. 1869 · Abraham Barker: Pilot left ship at Norfolk Island.

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