On this day: April 28
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 28, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1904 · Karluk: Crewman nearly suffocated during ship fumigation.
- 1906 · Karluk: New crewman signed aboard.
- 1849 · Abigail: Caught a whale.
- 1833 · Parker: Some sick recovering slowly.
- 1833 · Bengal: Crew grew discontented during the calm.
- 1837 · Addison: Left friends behind in port.
- 1848 · Dunbarton: Entered green water.
- 1849 · Nimrod: Keeper remarked on the quiet port.
- 1850 · Draco: Keeper pleaded for whales and home.
- 1854 · Active: Sighted snow-covered mountain on Niphon.
- 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw porpoises.