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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 ship made the newspapers again in 1871 when it helped rescue the crews of 32 whaling vessels trapped in the ice off Alaska, transporting hundreds of survivors of the wrecked ships to Hawaii ...
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 ...
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.
HONOLULU (AP) - A fierce sperm whale sank the first whaling ship under George Pollard's command and inspired the classic American novel "Moby-Dick". A mere two years later, a second whaler ...
While at least 214 whaling voyages ventured into the Gulf, Lund said, ships from the Northeast rarely made extended port calls in Southern cities like New Orleans or Mobile, Alabama, because of ...
The crew of the 1841 whale ship Charles W. Morgan conducted their third day of sea trials Wed. in preparation for her 38th Voyage. The Morgan is the last wooden whaling in the world and was last ...
The new ship replaces the Nisshin Maru, the infamous whaling factory vessel dubbed by activists as a “floating slaughterhouse” that was decommissioned in 2020 after more than 30 years of ...
In November 1941, a very tired and dilapidated wooden whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan,was towed by a Coast Guard cutter up the Mystic River in Connecticut to the Mystic Seaport Museum.There ...
The discovery of a 207-year-old whaling ship, Industry, in the Gulf of Mexico is shedding light on the history of its Black and Native American crew members in the early 1800s.
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 ...