On this day: January 8

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on January 8, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1849 · Mary and Susan: Islanders brought produce to trade.
2. 1852 · Pacific: Watched a lunar eclipse at sunset.
3. 1834 · Bengal: Lost two men.
4. 1853 · Fortune: Oil tank sprang a leak.
5. 1905 · Karluk: Crew spent the calm playing ball.
6. 1842 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
7. 1864 · Brewster: Keeper cursed captain for barring crew's mail.
8. 1865 · Brewster: Caught 3 whales.
9. 1823 · Packet: Struck by a tornado at night.
10. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper noted unusually heavy seas.
11. 1846 · Draco: Keeper despaired over seeing no whales.
12. 1852 · Elizabeth: Saw white water.
13. 1864 · Solon: Crewman off duty with fit and disease.
14. 1906 · Karluk: Freezing gale at thirty below zero.

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