On this day: September 30

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 30, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1863 · Mary: Drinking water lost to rotten casks.
2. 1880 · Attleboro: Discovered a stowaway aboard.
3. 1905 · Karluk: Smith returned after having enough.
4. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Four men ashore.
5. 1844 · Draco: Homesick keeper pleaded for whales.
6. 1846 · Charles Phelps: Gathered wood and provisions on an island.
7. 1864 · Mary: Caught 3 sperm whales.
8. 1845 · Edward: Keeper noted being nearly halfway home.
9. 1848 · Nimrod: Keeper expected to like whaling.
10. 1893 · Beluga: Another ship took their whale.
11. 1831 · George Porter: Saw a number of small birds.

September 29 · October 1

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