On this day: August 14

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 14, 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: Towed the ship off a lee shore.
2. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Moved ship out due to fighting.
3. 1848 · Draco: Keeper prayed for whales and confessed homesickness.
4. 1852 · Pacific: Caught a whale.
5. 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
6. 1827 · Galatea: Boobies sighted at sea.
7. 1845 · Edward: Keeper noted routine monotony.
8. 1850 · Draco: Complained Mauritius was too expensive.
9. 1852 · Fortune: Sighted ice ahead.
10. 1866 · Abraham Barker: Saw schools of grampuses.
11. 1904 · Karluk: Worked through ice into clear water.
12. 1861 · Altamaha: Saw grampuses.
13. 1904 · Karluk: Observed no ice off Thetis Islands.

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