On this day: September 20
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 20, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1837 · Addison: Traded provisions with a Dutch ship.
- 1825 · Rosalie: Potatoes found rotten.
- 1846 · Draco: Keeper prayed for oil and home.
- 1883 · Pedro Varela: Caught a whale.
- 1906 · Karluk: Returned 25 sacks of borrowed flour.
- 1862 · Hopeton: Dolphins swam around the ship.
- 1832 · George Porter: Saw school of fish.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Chased fish.