On this day: July 11

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

1. 1904 · Karluk: Took seven Native people aboard.
2. 1852 · Fortune: Both try-pots found broken.
3. 1862 · Hopeton: Picked up a floating box of hams.
4. 1843 · Jefferson: Caught 5 sperm whales.
5. 1853 · Active: A canoe brought coconuts aboard.
6. 1827 · Rosalie: PUMPED OIL FOR THE FIRST TIME.
7. 1833 · Bengal: Cheefmon was sick.
8. 1834 · Bengal: Crew spotted waterspouts.
9. 1844 · Charles Phelps: Four crew members off duty sick.
10. 1849 · Abigail: Keeper lamented a deeply lonesome day.
11. 1852 · Fortune: Charles Bray reported sick.
12. 1861 · Jireh Perry: Searched for charted land that did not exist.
13. 1847 · Dunbarton: Saw fish.
14. 1906 · Karluk: Observed small ice.

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