On this day: May 27
What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on May 27, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.
- 1864 · Brewster: Left two runaways behind in port.
- 1893 · Beluga: Prepared cofferdam to replace propeller blade.
- 1836 · Addison: Canoes came alongside the ship.
- 1844 · Rowena: Green water observed.
- 1847 · Dunbarton: Crew caught a porpoise.
- 1849 · Abigail: Keeper lamented another day of despair.
- 1834 · Parker: Saw porpoises.
- 1893 · Beluga: Cruised near very large floes of ice.