On this day: August 9

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 9, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1865 · Brewster: Learned the Civil War had ended.
2. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Captain reprimanded crew for insubordination and abuse.
3. 1852 · Fortune: The Nile drifted into the ship.
4. 1906 · Karluk: Mail arrived from the fort.
5. 1832 · Parker: Caught a whale.
6. 1837 · Addison: Sea turned white as milk.
7. 1845 · Edward: Caught a whale.
8. 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
9. 1865 · Brewster: Women searched for husbands aboard.
10. 1893 · Beluga: Fleet of twenty-six vessels gathered.
11. 1833 · Bengal: Saw fish.
12. 1861 · Altamaha: Saw schools of porpoises.
13. 1893 · Beluga: Let go from the ice.

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