On this day: October 30

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on October 30, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1849 · Abigail: Baby aboard slowly gaining strength.
2. 1852 · Fortune: Discharged three natives and an American boy.
3. 1822 · Packet: Caught a whale.
4. 1824 · Victory: Caught a whale.
5. 1843 · Jefferson: Caught a right whale.
6. 1844 · Edward: Rough, confused sea heaped up.
7. 1845 · Edward: Returned home and ended the voyage.
8. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Brought pigs and chickens aboard.
9. 1831 · Parker: Crew salvaged a large timber log.
10. 1846 · Dunbarton: Keeper had never seen it blow harder.
11. 1882 · Pedro Varela: Captain returned to ship.
12. 1904 · Karluk: Sleds sent out during a snowstorm.
13. 1905 · Karluk: Sleds sent out over the ice for meat.
14. 1850 · Fortune: Steward still sick with lady fever.

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