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   How big was Essex a whaling ship?

   • At only 88 feet (27 m) in length, and measuring about 239 tons burthen, Essex was small for a whaling ship. She was equipped with five whaleboats, each about 28 ft (8.5 m) in length. Essex set sail with a crew of twenty-one men.

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   Did a whale attack the New England whaling ship Essex?

   • In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story.

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   Why did the Essex sank?

   • It was adapted into a film of the same name, which was released in December 2015. The Essex, an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, sank after a sperm whale attacked it in the Pacific Ocean in November 1820. Having lost their ship, the crew of the Essex attempted to sail to South America in whaleboats.

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   Who sailed on Essex in 1817-1819?

   • The first mate, 21-year-old Owen Chase, had sailed on Essex in 1817-1819. The second mate was 26-year-old Matthew Joy. The three boatsteerers were Obed Hendricks and Benjamin Lawrence, both 20 years old and from Nantucket, and Englishman Thomas Chappel.

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   May 1, 2001 · Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history. In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny ...

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   In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

   • Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

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   May 8, 2000 · In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.

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   Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale.

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   In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Nathaniel Philbrick. Viking, $24.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-670-89157-3. In 1821, a whaling ship came upon a small boat off the...

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   In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Winner, National Book Awards 2000 for Nonfiction. ISBN 9780670891573 Penguin Putnam. Nathaniel Philbrick grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow.

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    In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner) - Ebook written by Nathaniel Philbrick. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC,...