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Oct 17, 2014 · If you’ve driven up Orange Street on Nantucket than this house may look quite familiar! The history of 74 Orange Street is a true find! It may be hard to imagine from its current state, but in the late nineteenth-century Owen Chase (First Mate and survivor of the Es sex whaling ship) called 74 Orange Street home.
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was first mate of the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on November 20, 1820, after being rammed by a sperm whale. Soon after his return to Nantucket , Chase wrote an account of the shipwreck and the attempts of the crew to reach land in small boats.
- March 8, 1869 (aged 71), Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Whaling Captain
Sep 12, 2023 · Owen Chase, later in life, via Nantucket Historical Society The ships sailed together and traveled about 1,000 miles, subsisting on about a half pint of water and 500 calories a day per man. On December 20th, they made landfall on an uninhabited island, which they believed to be Ducie Island.
Sep 2, 2020 · Owen Chase, a survivor of The Essex tragedy, lived in this house, haunted by his memories. Pamela Wright for The Boston Globe. The Thomas Nickerson House, named for another survivor who...
Oct 3, 2016 · A True Nantucket Tragedy. on October 3, 2016. ~ by Amy Jenness ~. Thomas Nickerson. After surviving the gruesome loss of the Nantucket whaleship Essex in 1820, George Pollard, the ship’s captain, and Owen Chase, its first mate, returned home in June of 1821. Pollard immediately returned to the sea in command of a another whaleship.
The adventure, which is one of the world’s great triumphs of survival, has been recorded in an account of stunning vividness, First Mate Owen Chase’s Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantuchet.
As first mate of Essex, 21-year-old Owen Chase left Nantucket on August 12, 1819 on a two-and-a-half-year whaling voyage. On the morning of November 20, 1820, a sperm whale (alleged to be around 85 feet, 26 m), twice rammed Essex, sinking her 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of South America.
