On this day: July 13
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 13, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1849 · Abigail: Mrs. Young fell very sick.
- 1865 · Brewster: Ship grounded on a reef.
- 1833 · Parker: Caught a whale.
- 1834 · Bengal: Caught 3 sperm whales.
- 1846 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Caught a pilot whale.
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
- 1868 · Abraham Barker: Canoes met the ship at Eoa.
- 1833 · Bengal: Could not understand a passing ship's language.
- 1834 · Bengal: Crewman terrified whale would breach the hull.
- 1842 · Rowena: Discharged three men.
- 1842 · Rowena: Shipped one man as steward.
- 1844 · Draco: Keeper praised ship in a gale.
- 1844 · Solon: Keeper lamented ten days without whales.
- 1851 · Fortune: Sailed near ice in fog.
- 1861 · Altamaha: Saw flying squid and albacore.
- 1905 · Karluk: Stopped and tied up to the ice.
- 1906 · Karluk: Trapped by heavy ice.
- 1849 · Abigail: Saw porpoises.
- 1866 · Abraham Barker: Saw porpoises.
- 1905 · Karluk: Made fast to the ice.