On this day: July 15

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 15, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1852 · Active: Boarded an abandoned, waterlogged brig.
2. 1905 · Karluk: Native people visited the ship.
3. 1866 · Abraham Barker: First mate scalded by hot oil.
4. 1904 · Karluk: Crew caught a walrus.
5. 1905 · Karluk: The Bowhead ran aground.
6. 1832 · Parker: Caught a whale.
7. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Caught 3 pilot whales.
8. 1846 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
9. 1851 · Fortune: Caught a bowhead whale.
10. 1866 · Abraham Barker: Caught 2 sperm whales.
11. 1832 · Bengal: Tremendous sea during a gale.
12. 1844 · Solon: Keeper eagerly watched for whales.
13. 1846 · Dunbarton: Keeper lamented dry whaling times.
14. 1850 · Draco: Keeper lamented lack of oil.
15. 1853 · Fortune: Kanaka reported about the same.
16. 1862 · Hopeton: Saw flying fish and flying squid.
17. 1846 · Dunbarton: Boiled out blackfish (pilot whales) blubber.
18. 1878 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw grampus.
19. 1905 · Karluk: Got some trout.

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