On this day: April 13
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 13, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1833 · Parker: Anchored and began trading.
- 1828 · Galatea: Ship began its journey home.
- 1846 · Draco: Keeper prayed for oil and longed for home.
- 1847 · Draco: Captain Cox was homesick all day.
- 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught 5 pilot whales.
- 1882 · Pedro Varela: Caught 4 sperm whales.
- 1831 · George Porter: Pilot left the ship.
- 1832 · Parker: Keeper doubted they would take more oil.
- 1893 · Beluga: Gale and heavy snow squalls.