On this day: April 29

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 29, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1834 · Parker: Caught a whale.
2. 1846 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
3. 1849 · Nimrod: Watched Kanakas dress up for church.
4. 1863 · Mary: Caught a sperm whale.
5. 1832 · Bengal: Crew practiced swimming to prepare for whaling.
6. 1846 · Draco: Keeper lamented sighting a finback.
7. 1848 · Abigail: Spotted breakers before seeing land in fog.
8. 1851 · Pacific: Basking sharks and grampuses sighted.
9. 1852 · Fortune: Saw some Scamperdowns.
10. 1905 · Karluk: Got a load of ice.

April 28 · April 30

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