On this day: September 11
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 11, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1834 · Bengal: Boat capsized carrying forty local women.
- 1837 · Edward Quesnel: U.S. schooner brought war news.
- 1834 · Addison: Waist boat lost in a gale.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Boats towed the ship off a lee shore.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Brought back turtles, fish, and a shark.
- 1866 · Abraham Barker: Crewman ran away on shore but caught.
- 1868 · Abraham Barker: Carpenter made a shark for the "old woman".
- 1822 · Packet: Gathered coconuts on an uninhabited shore.
- 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
- 1833 · Bengal: Crew described as "dangerously sick in mind".
- 1833 · Bengal: Three sick on board.
- 1834 · Bengal: Keeper joked about women in the water.
- 1847 · Draco: Keeper gave thanks despite dull voyage.
- 1905 · Karluk: Ice blocked the boats while gathering wood.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Brought two turtles on board.
- 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw grampuses and killer whales.