On this day: August 11
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 11, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1852 · Pacific: Crewman buried at sea.
- 1853 · Active: Steward demoted for theft and troublemaking.
- 1862 · Mary: Four crew members stole a boat and deserted.
- 1879 · Draco: Whale smashed a whaleboat.
- 1836 · Addison: Traded with canoes off Cocoanut Island.
- 1844 · Solon: Whale smashed boat to pieces.
- 1849 · Mary and Susan: Heavy leaking found during gale.
- 1852 · Active: Landed sperm oil ashore at Fayal.
- 1834 · Bengal: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1846 · Charles Phelps: Consul and harbor master boarded the ship.
- 1852 · Pacific: Caught a whale.
- 1879 · Draco: Caught a humpback whale.
- 1852 · Fortune: Ice sighted in thick hazy weather.
- 1853 · Active: Steward turned into forecastle for offenses.
- 1866 · Abraham Barker: Mistook a ship reefing for whaling.
- 1846 · Draco: Saw grampuses.
- 1862 · Hopeton: Caught a large number of fish.