On this day: June 2

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 2, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1832 · Bengal: Lost 100 gallons when a cask broke.
2. 1864 · Brewster: Mate hunted for runaway crewmen.
3. 1864 · Brewster: Ship beached and kedged off.
4. 1837 · Addison: Caught 3 sperm whales.
5. 1845 · Draco: Keeper prayed for oil after seventeen months.
6. 1846 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
7. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a bowhead whale.
8. 1849 · Draco: Caught a whale.
9. 1833 · Bengal: Abundant marine life sighted.
10. 1906 · Karluk: Coffee supply ran out.
11. 1833 · Bengal: Saw porpoises.
12. 1833 · Bengal: Saw albacores.
13. 1833 · Bengal: Saw bonitos.
14. 1833 · Bengal: Saw flying squid.
15. 1834 · Bengal: Keeper lamented dull times.
16. 1834 · Bengal: Saw dolphin.
17. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Boiled a killer whale.
18. 1845 · Draco: Saw jumpers (probably leaping dolphins).
19. 1848 · Dunbarton: Saw porpoises.
20. 1853 · Fortune: Observed ice in sight.
21. 1853 · Active: Saw sulfur bottoms.

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