On this day: September 1
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 1, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1834 · Parker: Cask leaked half its oil.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Lost a whaleboat in a squall.
- 1849 · Draco: Another try-pot found broken.
- 1852 · Active: Harpooner ill with pleurisy.
- 1869 · Abraham Barker: Traded off Fiji.
- 1862 · Mary: Caught 3 sperm whales.
- 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught a whale.
- 1904 · Karluk: Caught a bowhead whale.
- 1832 · Bengal: Saw seabirds and albacore tuna.
- 1833 · Bengal: Empty-handed after a long chase.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Keeper lamented losing a boat.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Struck green water.
- 1848 · Abigail: Severe storm tore the main topsail.
- 1865 · Brewster: Keeper complained about difficult sail repairs.
- 1905 · Karluk: Harbor filled with ice.
- 1906 · Karluk: Worked along the ice.
- 1832 · Bengal: Saw haglets.