On this day: June 19

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 19, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught 2 whales.
2. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a whale.
3. 1844 · Solon: Keeper lamented dull times.
4. 1850 · Draco: Caught 2 whales.
5. 1852 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
6. 1864 · Brewster: Caught a whale.
7. 1865 · Brewster: Sighted first ship in three months.
8. 1866 · Abraham Barker: Optimism at the start of voyage.
9. 1844 · Draco: Keeper celebrated good luck despite illness.
10. 1844 · Draco: Keeper reported being sick.
11. 1849 · Abigail: Keeper despaired over the ship's bleak prospects.
12. 1851 · Fortune: Large pod of killer whales sighted.
13. 1853 · Fortune: Ice sighted as fog cleared.
14. 1844 · Solon: Saw a number of small fish.
15. 1864 · Brewster: Struck and caught a cow fish (a small whale or dolphin).
16. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Saw porpoises.

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