On this day: August 24

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 24, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Fight broke out and crewman refused duty.
2. 1833 · Bengal: Helvetius fled thunder and lightning.
3. 1835 · Addison: Gathered yams and pigs ashore.
4. 1861 · Altamaha: Recovered a vessel's floating bowsprit.
5. 1865 · Brewster: Captain tried rigging mincing machine as pump.
6. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught a whale.
7. 1845 · Charles Phelps: Caught a right whale.
8. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
9. 1893 · Beluga: Caught a bowhead whale.
10. 1906 · Karluk: Cutter officers came aboard for investigation.
11. 1832 · Bengal: Spotted a sunfish.
12. 1846 · Indian Chief: Ship started for home.
13. 1833 · Bengal: Noted albicores left the ship.
14. 1841 · Rowena: Boiling out a blackfish (a pilot whale).

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