On this day: June 27

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on June 27, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1904 · Karluk: Received news that tender was lost.
2. 1865 · Brewster: Whale smashed a boat from the Osceola.
3. 1844 · Solon: Caught a whale.
4. 1848 · Draco: Log keeper expressed homesickness.
5. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Caught a whale.
6. 1849 · Draco: Keeper prayed for more oil.
7. 1851 · Pacific: Caught 2 pilot whales.
8. 1879 · Draco: Caught a whale.
9. 1826 · Rosalie: Plentiful porpoises seen.
10. 1832 · Bengal: Severe snowstorm and heavy seas.
11. 1847 · Dunbarton: Crew caught four porpoises.
12. 1852 · Pacific: Encountered large bodies of ice off Asia.
13. 1853 · Fortune: Tied to drifting ice amidst whales.

June 26 · June 28

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