On this day: September 18
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 18, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1832 · Bengal: Captain sought recruits at Payta.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Caught a whale.
- 1845 · Draco: Keeper prayed for oil.
- 1861 · Jireh Perry: Spotted several grampuses.
- 1893 · Beluga: Reached the ice pack.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Saw grampuses.
- 1853 · Fortune: D Butterfield returned to duty.
- 1862 · Hopeton: Saw a great number of small fish.