On this day: July 4

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on July 4, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1862 · Hopeton: Picked up wreckage from a cabin.
2. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Fire broke out at the try-works.
3. 1853 · Fortune: Boat stove by ice while chasing whale.
4. 1852 · Pacific: Natives boarded and were driven off.
5. 1861 · Jireh Perry: White men traded hogs and fowl.
6. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
7. 1882 · Pedro Varela: Caught a sperm whale.
8. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper noted Independence Day.
9. 1845 · Draco: Keeper pleaded for oil.
10. 1846 · Dunbarton: Keeper reported feeling almost sick.
11. 1846 · Dunbarton: Keeper reported being almost sick.
12. 1849 · Abigail: Pigs slaughtered for Fourth of July dinner.
13. 1852 · Fortune: Ice sighted amid a busy fleet.
14. 1853 · Fortune: Ship drifted deep into heavy ice.
15. 1861 · Altamaha: Saw white water and ran for it.
16. 1905 · Karluk: Snow on the Fourth of July.
17. 1852 · Pacific: Steered out of the ice.
18. 1906 · Karluk: Ice remained packed outside the spit.

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