On this day: March 26
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on March 26, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1834 · Bengal: Troublemaker Chapman was put ashore.
- 1922 · Gaspé: Camera crew worked day and night.
- 1833 · Bengal: Readied guns before landing among cannibals.
- 1869 · Abraham Barker: Crewmen stayed aboard the Coral.
- 1869 · Abraham Barker: Carpenter and Henry Potter visited the Coral.
- 1832 · Bengal: Crew recovered from seasickness.
- 1832 · Bengal: Crew recovering from sea sickness.
- 1846 · Indian Chief: Adjusted the calendar upon crossing the date line.
- 1847 · Draco: Crew caught a porpoise.
- 1865 · Brewster: Keeper rigged makeshift sails.
- 1905 · Karluk: Temperature plunged to 29 below zero.
- 1834 · Bengal: Went on shore for terrapin.
- 1844 · Rowena: Two men off duty.