On this day: May 22
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on May 22, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1845 · Edward: Received recent newspapers from passing ship.
- 1850 · Abigail: Fought blinding snow and terrifying seas.
- 1864 · Brewster: Crew went missing on liberty.
- 1870 · Abraham Barker: Squall caught the ship aback.
- 1836 · Addison: Caught a sperm whale.
- 1846 · Draco: Caught a whale.
- 1846 · Charles Phelps: Caught a right whale.
- 1861 · Altamaha: Caught a pilot whale.
- 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Discharged the pilot.