On this day: August 15
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 15, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1849 · Mary and Susan: Keeper attacked by crewman, who was flogged.
- 1857 · Daniel Wood: Captains and a wife gathered flowers ashore.
- 1833 · Bengal: Mate struck and threatened a crewman.
- 1845 · Edward: Carcass abandoned after a hard chase.
- 1857 · Daniel Wood: Keeper poured out longing for his wife.
- 1904 · Karluk: Grounded near shore and hauled off.
- 1844 · Rowena: Caught 3 whales.
- 1845 · Draco: Keeper prayed for more oil before landing.
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a bowhead whale.
- 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1905 · Karluk: Caught a whale.
- 1833 · Bengal: Clifford assaulted a man and made threats.
- 1834 · Bengal: Keeper cursed incompetent officers and gunners.
- 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Whale sounded as the chase began.
- 1844 · Solon: Lamented dull times and empty seas.
- 1863 · Mary: Lamented that everyone else was taking oil.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Saw grampuses.
- 1852 · Fortune: Tacking on and off the ice.
- 1852 · Pacific: Thirty-two ships in sight.