21st A Stiff fair breeze but most all on board are sea sick. we see a sail south of us
she left N York the Time we did she is bound for London
~ Sunday
22nd Sunday most are still sick a high wind through the day & a high gale at night sea
vary rough & boat pitched badly
~ Monday
23rd Sea vary rough & winds high many still are sick our cabin is crouded & unholesome
~ Tuesday
24th The sea Runs mountains High & looks like the hills & valleys of Kirtland. we shiped
some heavy seas I got wet yet I sat upon deck untill late in the evening though it was
winter it was not vary cold
~ Wednesday
25th A calm in the morning yet the ship rocked bad upon the dead swells. the wind
soon rose & we sailed fast through the day & night
~ Thursday
26th A Rough sea & strong breeze we sail fast
~ Friday
27th Fair wind sail fast dut [but] do not know how many not [knots]. had a number of short squalls
we have got over our sea sickness & have good Appetite
~ Saturday
28 A vary rough sea, most of the day we saw a large school of porposes & Blackfish
all around the ship. we had a calm in the evening
~ Sunday
29 Sunday A Plesant day & a high breeze
~ Monday
30th A rough sea. A severe gale at night the ship rocked & pitched to such a degree it was with
much difficulty that we kept our births, trunks Boxes & barrels were tumbling about
the cabin.
~ Tuesday
31st The last day of AD 1839. Sea still vary rough, under closs reef top sails cloudy weather. their
is not much to interest the mind on a sea voyage while one is many days out of sight of land
except the rolling billows which are majestic. A person is freequently not ownly out of sight of
land but do not even see a sail or the sun, but have to be crouded together in a steerage like
hogos or stay upon deck in the mids[t] of spray wind & storm. This day leaves me in the centre of the Atlantic from N Y to Liverpool whole distan[c]e 3800 miles half the distan[c]e sailed in Dec 1839 1,900 mil[e]s
~ Saturday
21st A Stiff fair breeze but most all on board are sea sick we see a sail south of us
she left N York the Time we did she is bound for London
~ Sunday
22nd Sunday most are still sick a high wind through the day & a high gale at night sea
vary rough & boat pitched badly
~ Monday
23rd Sea vary rough & winds high many still are sick our cabin is crouded & unholesome
~ Tuesday
24th The sea Runs mountains High & looks like the hills & valleys of Kirtland. we shiped
some heavy seas I got wet yet I sat upon deck untill late in the evening though it was
winter it was not vary cold
~ Wednesday
25th A calm in the morning yet the ship rocked bad upon the dead swells. the wind
soon rose & we sailed fast through the day & night
~ Thursday
26th A Rough Sea & strong breeze we sail fast
~ Friday
27th Fair wind sail fast dut do not know how many knots, had a number of short squalls
we have got over our sea sickness & have good Appetite
~ Saturday
28 A vary rough sea, most of the day we saw a large school of porposes & Blackfish
all around the ship. we had a calm in the evening
~ Sunday
29 Sunday A Plesant day & a high breeze
~ Monday
30th A rough sea, A severe gale at night the ship rocked & pitched to such a degree it was with
much difficulty that we kept our births, trunks Boxes & barrels were tumbling about
the cabin.
~ Tuesday
31st The last day of AD 1839. sea still vary rough, under closs reef top sails cloudy weather. their
is not much to interest the mind on a sea voyage while one is many days out of sight of land
except the rolling billows which are majestic. A person is freequently not ownly out of sight of
land but do not even see a sail or the sun, but have to be crouded together in a steerage like
hogs or stay upon deck in the midst of spray wind & storm. This day leaves me in the centre of the
Atlantic from NY to Liverpool whole distance 3800 miles half the distance sailed in Dec 1839 1,900 miles
"Journal (January 1, 1838 – December 31, 1839)," December 21, 1839 - December 31, 1839, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 8, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/gWY
