On this day: July 20

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 20, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1842 · Rowena: Two crewmen deserted in port.
2. 1849 · Draco: Two crewmen flogged for fighting.
3. 1846 · Dunbarton: Caught a dolphin and killed a shark.
4. 1827 · Rosalie: Caught a whale.
5. 1862 · Jireh Perry: Boat reported nothing could be had.
6. 1863 · Mary: Captain left for Labuan to get married.
7. 1846 · Draco: Keeper trusted the barometer's warning of a gale.
8. 1849 · Mary and Susan: Fired guns in fog to guide boats.
9. 1852 · Fortune: Crewman off duty pelted the cook.
10. 1863 · Mary: Keeper declared the whaling grounds fished out.
11. 1864 · Brewster: Drifted sixty miles overnight.
12. 1904 · Karluk: Moored to the ice alongside another ship.
13. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw porpoises.

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