On this day: February 11

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on February 11, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1823 · Packet: Fired musket balls into a waterspout.
2. 1864 · Brewster: Fled from a suspected pirate ship.
3. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught a pilot whale.
4. 1833 · Bengal: Caught a whale.
5. 1844 · Jefferson: Caught a sperm whale.
6. 1854 · Elizabeth: Caught 2 whales.
7. 1868 · Abraham Barker: Caught a sperm whale.
8. 1882 · Pedro Varela: Caught a sperm whale.
9. 1835 · Bengal: Sudden squall struck the ship.
10. 1847 · Draco: Keeper complained of empty seas.
11. 1867 · Abraham Barker: Forced to shorten sail near Tristan.
12. 1833 · Bengal: Saw a porpoise whale.

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