On this day: August 13

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 13, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1831 · George Porter: Brought a bullock aboard from shore.
2. 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Falling pulley wheel struck a sailor's head.
3. 1833 · Parker: Caught a whale.
4. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
5. 1862 · Mary: Caught 3 sperm whales.
6. 1833 · Bengal: Three weeks without whales.
7. 1861 · Altamaha: Saw many flying fish.
8. 1862 · Mary: Keeper wished for a hospital.
9. 1866 · Abraham Barker: Countless grampuses seen.
10. 1841 · Rowena: Saw a porpoise.
11. 1852 · Fortune: Snowland was no better.

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