On this day: August 31
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 31, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1850 · Draco: Keeper prayed to escape a gale.
- 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught 6 pilot whales.
- 1827 · Rosalie: Caught 4 whales.
- 1845 · Draco: Keeper prayed for a successful cruise.
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Spotted Indigenous people in a canoe.
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a right whale.
- 1849 · Draco: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
- 1853 · Elizabeth: Caught a whale.
- 1893 · Beluga: Caught 2 bowhead whales.
- 1832 · Bengal: Keeper noted Pacific colder than Atlantic.
- 1833 · Parker: Keeper joked about a "pleasant" gale.
- 1833 · Bengal: Keeper enjoyed the peaceful ocean.
- 1834 · Parker: Hoped for more oil on the journey home.
- 1833 · Bengal: Observed albacores.