On this day: March 10

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on March 10, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1852 · Fortune: Cook drowned after falling overboard.
2. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Steward sent to hospital ashore.
3. 1862 · Mary: Caught 5 whales.
4. 1869 · Abraham Barker: Caught a whale.
5. 1833 · Bengal: Crowded by whalers chasing after them.
6. 1826 · Rosalie: Saw porpoises.
7. 1848 · Dunbarton: Saw a great number of birds.

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