- to
factory ships operating in the open sea.
Previous to that was the
whaleship of the 16th to
early 20th centuries,
driven first by sail and then by...
- mate
Matthew Joy. He then
captained the New
Bedford whaleship Winslow and the
Nantucket whaleship Charles Carroll, in
which he
owned a share.
Chase married...
- Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book In the
Heart of the Sea: The
Tragedy of the
Whaleship Es****,
about the
sinking of the
American whaling ship Es**** in 1820, an...
- In the
Heart of the Sea: The
Tragedy of the
Whaleship Es**** is a book by
American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the
whaler Es**** in the...
- The
Stone Fleet consisted of a
fleet of
aging ships (mostly
whaleships)
purchased in New
Bedford and
other New
England ports,
loaded with stone, and sailed...
- True
Story of the
Whaleship Es**** was
written by
Nathaniel Philbrick. The 2002
historical book
recounts the 1820
sinking of the
whaleship Es**** by an enraged...
- The
whaler Globe, of Nantucket, M****achusetts, was
launched in 1815. She made
three whaling voyages and then in 1824, on her fourth, her crew mutinied...
- when he was
fourteen years old,
Nickerson served as
cabin boy on the
whaleship Es****. On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale, and the crew spent...
- is an 1851
novel by
Herman Melville that
describes the
voyage of the
whaleship Pequod, led by
Captain Ahab, who
leads his crew on a hunt for the whale...
- Prize. His
maritime history, In the
Heart of the Sea: The
Tragedy of the
Whaleship Es****, is
based on what
inspired Herman Melville to
author Moby-****,...
