log books
Captain's written chronicles
Log books are bound volumes for recording information chronologically—ship navigation data, flight hours, equipment maintenance, or daily activities.
The practice originated with maritime navigation, where captains logged speed, position, and conditions.
Now any systematic record kept over time: The mechanic checked the maintenance log book.
Also spelled as one word: logbook.
- entriesItems logged or submitted
- trackingMonitoring location over time
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
- recordPreserved account or achievement
- official recordAuthorized documented account
journal · chronicle · notes · pen and paper · handwritten · time stamps · ledger · documentation · minutes · archives · sea voyage · port of call · diary · data · navigation charts · dead reckoning · marine navigation · nautical miles
- organizersdesk organizer, drawer organizer, closet organizer, desk organizers, drawer organizers
- fisheries sciencefish stocks, biomass, abundance, fishing quotas, quota
- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- shipwrecksshipwreck, shipwrecks, sunken ships, capsized, derelict
- Age of Sailgalleons, ships, sea voyages, naval expeditions, sea battles
log booksscrap paper
Discarded pages repurposed for notes
sticky notes · verbal accounts · hearsay · ephemera · oral tradition
log booksoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
verbal accounts · word of mouth · hearsay · off-the-record · blank pages
log, book, logs, books, logged, logging, logger, loggers, booked