On this day: June 23

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 23, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1845 · Indian Chief: Whale smashed a boat.
2. 1827 · Rosalie: Caught a whale.
3. 1844 · Draco: Keeper prayed for one more whale.
4. 1853 · Elizabeth: Caught 2 sperm whales.
5. 1864 · Brewster: Caught a whale.
6. 1832 · Bengal: Faced mountain swells.
7. 1854 · Active: Navigated through ice amid thick fog.
8. 1833 · Parker: Saw several schools of porpoises.
9. 1846 · Dunbarton: Saw pilerantz.
10. 1851 · Pacific: Boiled blackfish (pilot whales) blubber.
11. 1852 · Fortune: Sea ice in sight while whaling.
12. 1905 · Karluk: Otepick brought fish from Sand Spit.

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