On this day: May 26
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on May 26, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1865 · Brewster: Missionary's wife gave birth.
- 1837 · Addison: Went ashore for yams and pigs.
- 1845 · Charles Phelps: Heavy sea broke davit and smashed boat.
- 1851 · Fortune: Bowline showed no sign of improvement.
- 1853 · Fortune: Harpooner stepped down after a miss.
- 1893 · Beluga: Ice broke off a propeller blade.
- 1834 · Bengal: Little news from Nantucket men.
- 1845 · Indian Chief: Caught a whale.
- 1853 · Elizabeth: Caught 2 whales.
- 1876 · E. H. Hatfield: Caught 3 whales.
- 1879 · Draco: Keeper reflected on time and tide.
- 1906 · Karluk: Sleds arrived from Icy Point.
- 1833 · Parker: Captain worried about a poor season.
- 1833 · Bengal: Chased an unknown ship fleeing under full sail.
- 1849 · Abigail: Keeper lamented miserable conditions.
- 1851 · Pacific: Crew caught two porpoises.
- 1853 · Fortune: Manuel Fredo sent forward to duty.
- 1905 · Karluk: Ice overflowed around the ship.
- 1843 · Rowena: Jack off duty.
- 1853 · Fortune: Ice observed towards which whales moved.
- 1893 · Beluga: Passed between ice floe and cake.