On this day: October 15

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on October 15, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1822 · Packet: Whale head broke adrift in the night.
2. 1832 · Parker: Mathias Smith sidelined by a rupture.
3. 1852 · Active: Boom snapped in squall.
4. 1830 · George Porter: Caught 2 whales.
5. 1832 · Bengal: Caught a whale.
6. 1883 · Pedro Varela: Completed voyage of over thirty months.
7. 1834 · Bengal: Keeper joked about having no help.
8. 1849 · Abigail: Keeper lamented men nursing sick children.
9. 1849 · Abigail: Mrs Young mending but child feebler.
10. 1865 · Brewster: Crew got their first breathing room.
11. 1893 · Beluga: Heavy gale brought extreme snowfall.
12. 1905 · Karluk: Blizzard struck and flooded houses.
13. 1840 · Volant: Saw a number of birds.
14. 1868 · Abraham Barker: Raised porpoises or fish thought to be sperm whales.
15. 1878 · Draco: Processed blackfish (pilot whales).

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