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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.
Essex, American whaling ship that was rammed by a sperm whale on November 20, 1820, and later sank, sending its crew on an arduous journey to safety.
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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.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- 2000
Dec 28, 2015 · In 1819, the whale-ship Essex set sail from Nantucket. A year into the voyage, 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of South America, a pod of whales was sighted by the lookout. The harpoonists...
- Angela Cockayne
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. By November of 1820, after months of a prosperous voyage and a thousand miles from the nearest land, whaleboats from the Essex had harpooned whales that dragged them out...
The Whaleship Essex - Stove by a Whale. Essex model, by Mark Sutherland, 2011.29.1. No one knows exactly what the Essex looked like. This model is based on close study of period ship portraits and details preserved in the ship’s government registration documents.
Overview. Vocabulary. On November 20, 1820, the American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus ) and sunk. The incident inspired Herman Melville’s famous novel Moby Dick. The Essex had left her home port on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, more than a year earlier.
