On this day: November 19

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on November 19, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1850 · Fortune: Crew mutinied after officer seized a sailor.
2. 1832 · Bengal: Reports of hard living aboard the Ganges.
3. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Lost a spermaceti case.
4. 1830 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
5. 1832 · George Porter: Caught a whale.
6. 1844 · Edward: Caught a pilot whale.
7. 1845 · Draco: Keeper grew homesick after 23 months.
8. 1850 · Fortune: Brown refused to come out of forecastle.
9. 1850 · Fortune: Dixon and crew resisted officers; Dixon seized.
10. 1850 · Fortune: Dixon seized in rigging for insubordination.
11. 1864 · Brewster: Keeper complained of the heat.

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