On this day: June 25
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 25, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1833 · Bengal: Reports of boat crews deserting.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Crane broke and threw crewman overboard.
- 1846 · Dunbarton: Sighted a capsized derelict ship.
- 1833 · Parker: Whaleboat badly smashed during chase.
- 1844 · Rowena: Boat smashed and officer's arm broken.
- 1844 · Charles Phelps: Ship grounded on a reef.
- 1854 · Active: Ice damaged the cutwater.
- 1864 · Brewster: Harpooner relieved of duty over meat.
- 1833 · Parker: Caught a whale.
- 1834 · Bengal: Caught a whale.
- 1834 · Bengal: Caught a whale.
- 1844 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
- 1844 · Draco: Caught a whale.
- 1849 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
- 1844 · Draco: Keeper cheered by catching a whale.
- 1853 · Fortune: Moored to ice for fresh water.
- 1854 · Active: Ship drifted into massive ice cakes.
- 1906 · Karluk: Ice broke up around the ship.
- 1851 · Pacific: Obtained six dozen mackerel.