On this day: May 15

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on May 15, 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 threw pipes overboard in anger.
2. 1854 · Fortune: Crew threw the try-works overboard.
3. 1833 · Bengal: Runaway crewman caught by locals.
4. 1826 · Rosalie: Caught a whale.
5. 1835 · Addison: Caught a sperm whale.
6. 1881 · Pedro Varela: Caught 2 whales.
7. 1853 · Fortune: Encountered snow squalls.
8. 1853 · Active: Passed an unmapped island.
9. 1893 · Beluga: Trapped in ice during snowstorm.
10. 1846 · Draco: Caught a porpoise.

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