On this day: April 3

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 3, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1854 · Active: Cruised off the coast for deserters.
2. 1834 · Bengal: Anchored within a ship's length of rocks.
3. 1870 · Abraham Barker: Main topgallant mast split at the foot.
4. 1834 · Bengal: Discharged the sealers ashore.
5. 1849 · Abigail: Captain vowed to get out or run ashore.
6. 1854 · Elizabeth: Log keeper wrote a poem.
7. 1876 · Golden City: Met a schooner catching turtles.
8. 1833 · Bengal: Referenced Mr. Stewart's South Seas voyage.
9. 1848 · Dunbarton: Caught a porpoise.

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