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Sep 21, 2015 · 1820, at the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Sensational in its time, the epic tale still has resonance today. On the morning of November 20th, 1820, the whaleship ‘Essex’ was struck by an enraged sperm whale. The boat started to sink, and the twenty-one crew members who made it into the lifeboats found themselves stranded 2,000 miles from land.
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Cyprien Gaulon (b. 1777), Sinking of the Nantucket Whaleship Essex by a Whale on 20 November 1820. Colored lithograph, (12 3/8” x 16 7/8”). Bordeaux, France, 1821/22. “On 13 November 1820, the American ship Le Sussex, captain G. Pollard, was attacked by a monstrous whale hitting it at the bow, at the equator, 20°West longitude.
Sep 3, 2018 · Owen Chase, the first mate of the ‘Essex’, tells first-hand the harrowing account of the sailors’ attempts to survive against all odds. ‘The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex’ is a thrilling saga and classic tale of courage in the face of insurmountable odds. Owen Chase (1797-1869) was the First Mate of the whale-ship ‘Essex’ and wrote ...
And then there was the whaleship Essex, which embarked from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, and sailed into the most harrowing nightmare in the disaster-rich annals of whaling. When the Essex sailed for the southern seas, it was just a typical Nantucket whaler, a tubby, 238-ton three-master, provisioned for a two-and-a-half-year cruise.
Feb 12, 2002 · The whaling ship Essex left Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1819 on a two-and-a-half-year voyage in the whaling grounds of the South Pacific to hunt the lucrative but aggressive sperm whale. In June 1821, 13 of the 21 crew were dead, and the eight survivors have entered maritime history as part of one of the most remarkable sea-faring stories ever ...
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex : a First-Hand Account of One of History's Most Extraordinary Maritime Disasters by Owen Chase, First Mate. Chase, Owen. Published by Headline, London, 1999. ISBN 10: 0747274045 ISBN 13: 9780747274049. Seller: Dromanabooks, Newstead, VIC, Australia.
Dec 1, 2015 · Put aside Twenty-First Century values to read and learn from history . Over one hundred years later the Nickerson account The Loss of the Ship "Essex" Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats; was discovered in an old trunk and authenticated by the Nantucket Historical Association and published in 1984, a century after Nickerson wrote it.
