On this day: February 19

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on February 19, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1853 · Active: Trask released after promising to do better.
2. 1862 · Jireh Perry: Runaway crewman captured in town.
3. 1823 · Packet: Caught 2 pilot whales.
4. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a sperm whale.
5. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a pilot whale.
6. 1868 · Abraham Barker: Caught a sperm whale.
7. 1845 · Edward: Nothing to do but eat and sleep.
8. 1851 · Pacific: Keeper recorded a woman's name.
9. 1851 · Pacific: Pilot left the ship.
10. 1870 · Abraham Barker: Celebrated heading homeward bound.
11. 1876 · Golden City: Pilot left the ship.
12. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Henry off duty sick.

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