On this day: January 20

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on January 20, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1853 · Lark: Captain and cooper fought.
2. 1834 · Bengal: Keeper complained of the burning sun.
3. 1853 · Fortune: Sailor complained about short rations.
4. 1865 · Brewster: Three crewmen failed to return from leave.
5. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught a pilot whale.
6. 1835 · Bengal: Local boat fled in fear.
7. 1850 · Draco: Caught a whale.
8. 1868 · Abraham Barker: Caught 2 sperm whales.
9. 1869 · Abraham Barker: Caught a sperm whale.
10. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper lamented squalls of discontentment.
11. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Keeper noted "all well and so is the girls".
12. 1849 · Draco: Crew caught an ocean sunfish.
13. 1853 · Fortune: Crewman complained to captain about food.
14. 1854 · Fortune: Nolans reported about the same.
15. 1826 · Rosalie: Saw porpoises.
16. 1850 · Draco: Mr Degrass still off duty sick.
17. 1852 · Elizabeth: Saw a school of porpoises.
18. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Boiled out blackfish (pilot whales).

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