On this day: July 12

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 12, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1827 · Galatea: Brought potatoes and onions from shore.
2. 1832 · Parker: Crew member refused duty.
3. 1844 · Draco: Boat smashed during failed whale chase.
4. 1853 · Fortune: Welch sidelined by painful sore.
5. 1893 · Beluga: Forced inshore to escape drifting ice.
6. 1904 · Karluk: Crewman ran away at Cape Lisburne.
7. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a pilot whale.
8. 1844 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
9. 1852 · Pacific: A canoe came alongside.
10. 1826 · Rosalie: Keeper lamented "hard luck" chasing whales.
11. 1846 · Dunbarton: Sea lively with fish but no whales.
12. 1851 · Fortune: Encountered sea ice.
13. 1852 · Pacific: Not the right kind of whales.
14. 1869 · Abraham Barker: Waited out a storm under bare poles.
15. 1905 · Karluk: Worked the ship through ice.
16. 1834 · Addison: Saw grampuses.
17. 1878 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw porpoises.

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