On this day: October 28

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on October 28, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1851 · Fortune: Cook suffered from a painful toe.
2. 1824 · Victory: Caught a whale.
3. 1827 · Galatea: Caught a whale.
4. 1836 · Addison: Caught 2 sperm whales.
5. 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a sperm whale.
6. 1852 · Fortune: New mate began his duty aboard.
7. 1862 · Jireh Perry: Caught a whale.
8. 1831 · Parker: Keeper lamented bad weather spoiling the hunt.
9. 1832 · Bengal: Keeper lamented losing four whales in three days.
10. 1852 · Fortune: Thomas Milford commenced duty as mate.
11. 1843 · Rowena: Boiled out blackfish (pilot whales).

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