On this day: May 10

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

1. 1865 · Brewster: Captain allowed doughnuts from crew's flour only.
2. 1823 · Packet: Squall carried away square sail boom.
3. 1827 · Rosalie: Caught 3 sperm whales.
4. 1837 · Addison: Canoe arrived loaded with yams and pumpkins.
5. 1842 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
6. 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Shifted to a harbor log.
7. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper lamented the slow voyage.
8. 1844 · Draco: Keeper prayed for whales.
9. 1848 · Draco: Near-gale winds prevented whaling for ten days.
10. 1848 · Mary and Susan: Encountered a long chain of ice.
11. 1832 · Bengal: Saw a fish supposed a grampus.
12. 1834 · Bengal: Saw porpoises.

May 9 · May 11

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