These logbooks were recovered from a private ship owned by an 18th-century Norwegian monarch off the coast of the Western Fjords in modern-day Iceland. Historians believe that the ship was making passage for diplomatic reasons. The logbooks were used as records for the ship to keep notes about their course, the state of the ship, crew sentiment, discoveries at sea, weather conditions, and supply levels. When we found them, we were shocked to see that they are all blank. I guess their record keeper wasn't very good...
Leather-bound parchment with debossed logo