On this day: April 5

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on April 5, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1833 · Bengal: Young king and chief visited aboard.
2. 1827 · Rosalie: Council asked to track down two runaways.
3. 1832 · Parker: Casks found damaged in the hold.
4. 1854 · Active: Runaway Charles Burgess caught.
5. 1861 · Jireh Perry: Saw a bone shark.
6. 1834 · Bengal: Suspected runaway crew approached the ship.
7. 1849 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
8. 1922 · Gaspé: Caught a whale.
9. 1852 · Fortune: Freezing gale forced crew aloft twice.
10. 1867 · Abraham Barker: Crew salvaged floating whale head.
11. 1834 · Bengal: Saw porpoises.

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