On this day: July 16
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 16, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Cook left behind for sick wife.
- 1846 · Draco: Keeper narrowly escaped death from falling barrel.
- 1854 · Elizabeth: Captain's boat stove by a whale.
- 1832 · Bengal: Severe thunderstorm with sharp lightning and hail.
- 1834 · Parker: Whale smashed a whaleboat.
- 1851 · Fortune: The windlass broke down.
- 1851 · Pacific: Shore boat arrived for trading.
- 1833 · Bengal: Reports of lost ships and island massacres.
- 1834 · Parker: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1854 · Elizabeth: Caught 2 sperm whales.
- 1878 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught a pilot whale.
- 1844 · Solon: Crew grew anxious after a dry spell.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Shipped two green hands.
- 1848 · Draco: Keeper lamented poor season and missed home.
- 1853 · Fortune: Ice drifted down onto the anchorage.
- 1865 · Brewster: Crew grumbled after a missed strike.
- 1865 · Brewster: Crew had a jolly good growl.
- 1904 · Karluk: Steamed through scattered ice in company.
- 1905 · Karluk: Sought shelter from incoming ice.
- 1822 · Packet: Saw grampuses.
- 1841 · Rowena: Steward and one man off duty sick.
- 1845 · Draco: Saw porpoises.
- 1848 · Mary and Susan: Saw grampus and finbacks.
- 1905 · Karluk: Ice came in.