Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Read more on Boston.com.

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...

A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after it collided with a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters of Antarctica, the group said. The boat's ...

Passengers aboard a cruise ship docked at the Faroe Islands witnessed the butchering of wild dolphins on Sunday.n Captain Paul Watson Foundation UK. Grindadráp, or grind for short, occurs each ...

Repair crews failed Tuesday to restart the engine of a crippled Japanese whaler but were not yet planning to tow the ship away from the pristine Antarctic coastline, an official said.

When whaling in North America hit its peak in the mid-1800s, hundreds of ships armed with gun-loaded harpoons set off on hunts in the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

The Mystic Seaport Museum hosts an annual marathon reading of Moby Dick to celebrate Herman Melville's birthday, Aug. 1 on the Charles W. Morgan.

The whaling trade in the city began in the 1600s and peaked around 1820 when 62 vessels returned with the produce from 688 whales worth about £250,000, according to Hull History Centre.

The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...