On this day: February 27

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on February 27, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1832 · Parker: Boat capsized by an uncommon fish.
2. 1832 · Parker: Keeper lamented life at sea as a prison.
3. 1849 · Nimrod: Caught 5 sperm whales.
4. 1851 · Pacific: Flying jib-boom carried away in heavy seas.
5. 1865 · Brewster: Harpooner sent home.
6. 1832 · Parker: Struck an uncommon fish that capsized boat.
7. 1833 · Bengal: Caught a sperm whale.
8. 1842 · Rowena: Caught a right whale.
9. 1849 · Abigail: Caught a whale.
10. 1864 · Mary: Sighted Confederate commerce raider Alabama at Singapore.
11. 1864 · Mary: Caught 2 sperm whales.
12. 1864 · Mary: Caught 5 sperm whales.
13. 1868 · Abraham Barker: Caught a sperm whale.
14. 1834 · Bengal: Saw porpouses.
15. 1853 · Fortune: Invalids remained much the same.

February 26 · February 28

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