On this day: September 23

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 23, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1836 · Addison: Traded with islanders in canoes.
2. 1825 · Rosalie: Flying jib boom carried away.
3. 1857 · Daniel Wood: Captain wrote a loving letter to his wife.
4. 1837 · Addison: Main topgallant yard broke in a gale.
5. 1857 · Daniel Wood: Boat separated during a gale.
6. 1862 · Hopeton: Saw a shark and dolphin.
7. 1827 · Rosalie: Caught 2 whales.
8. 1832 · George Porter: Saw a number of boobies.
9. 1845 · Indian Chief: Caught 2 sperm whales.
10. 1857 · Daniel Wood: Caught 4 whales.
11. 1834 · Bengal: Shipped one man.
12. 1842 · Rowena: Spotted two empty whaleboats.
13. 1848 · Nimrod: Keeper out of sight of land and seasick.
14. 1848 · Nimrod: Keeper felt seasick.
15. 1865 · Brewster: Keeper called out "Glory to Godland".
16. 1904 · Karluk: Large ice drifted into the anchorage.
17. 1904 · Karluk: Big ice came in.

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