On this day: July 25

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 25, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1832 · Bengal: Flying jib boom carried away.
2. 1834 · Bengal: Ship leaked badly around the cutwater.
3. 1842 · Rowena: Runaway crewmen caught and jailed.
4. 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Caught 4 pilot whales.
5. 1864 · Brewster: Got year-old newspapers from Dutch ship.
6. 1879 · Draco: Caught 2 humpback whales.
7. 1849 · Abigail: Spotted an "Irish squid".
8. 1853 · Fortune: Ice sighted.
9. 1893 · Beluga: Ice drifted by in thick fog.
10. 1904 · Karluk: Forced inshore by encroaching ice.
11. 1831 · George Porter: Saw porpoises.

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