On this day: March 16

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on March 16, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1852 · Fortune: Crew member Mingo fell very ill.
2. 1833 · Bengal: Caught a whale.
3. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper endured sickening work on rotten whale.
4. 1846 · Draco: Keeper prayed for whales.
5. 1846 · Charles Phelps: Ship keeper discharged on shore.
6. 1846 · Charles Phelps: New crew members shipped to fill vacancies.
7. 1848 · Dunbarton: Saw a shoal of porpoises.
8. 1851 · Fortune: Invalids remained about the same.
9. 1906 · Karluk: Got two loads of ice.

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