On this day: September 29
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 29, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1846 · Charles Phelps: Went ashore for firewood.
- 1849 · Abigail: Water cask found badly decayed.
- 1842 · Rowena: Caught 2 whales.
- 1848 · Abigail: Caught a whale.
- 1851 · Pacific: Caught a pilot whale.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1851 · Fortune: John the Kanackca was sick below.
- 1893 · Beluga: Sailed between strips of ice.
- 1904 · Karluk: Crew worked cutting ice.
- 1906 · Karluk: Reached the ice and lost whale in fog.