On this day: June 14
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 14, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1836 · Addison: Traded with islanders in a canoe.
- 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Three crewmen deserted the ship.
- 1850 · Draco: Whale smashed a whaleboat.
- 1853 · Active: Men picked up from the hospital.
- 1867 · Abraham Barker: Second mate broke his collarbone.
- 1842 · Jefferson: Caught a whale.
- 1844 · Solon: Keeper lamented poor whaling luck.
- 1851 · Pacific: Received potatoes and onions from Harbinger's boat.
- 1917 · Pedro Varela: Caught 3 whales.
- 1826 · Rosalie: Observed thick water becoming clearer.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Saw squid and pilot whales.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Spotted a turtle and porpoises.
- 1852 · Elizabeth: Smoked the ship to kill rats.
- 1904 · Karluk: Ice blocked the way to Port Clarence.
- 1845 · Edward: Caught two porpoises.
- 1845 · Edward: Seen a grampus.