On this day: August 1

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 1, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1844 · Indian Chief: Went ashore to trade at Fogo.
2. 1848 · Draco: Crew spent shore leave completely sober.
3. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a whale.
4. 1844 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
5. 1844 · Indian Chief: Caught a pilot whale.
6. 1849 · Draco: Anchored for supplies but found nothing.
7. 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
8. 1866 · Abraham Barker: Grampuses seen breaching.
9. 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught a whale.
10. 1893 · Beluga: Captains gathered for poker while icebound.
11. 1826 · Rosalie: Heavy rolling disrupted boiling oil.
12. 1833 · Parker: Keeper hoped for more blubber soon.
13. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper lamented an unsuccessful chase.
14. 1846 · Dunbarton: Caught dolphin and rudderfish.
15. 1862 · Hopeton: Saw grampuses and cowfish (small whales or dolphins).
16. 1893 · Beluga: Ship remained fast to the ice.

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