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April/May 1983. Volume. 34. Issue. 3. On November 20, 1820, the Essex was struck by a whale in the middle of the Pacific and sank almost immediately, stranding her crew in small boats thousands of miles from land. FOR THE WHALING MEN OF NANTUCKET , the year 1819 looked to be an especially promising one. The island’s famed whaling fleet ...
Nov 20, 2015 · Collection of the Rosenbach, AL1 .M531mo 851b. If the idea of a ship being sunk by a whale sounds familiar, that is not coincidental. The story of the Essex was quite famous in the 19th century and Herman Melville knew it well. In 1821, Owen Chase, the Essex’s first mate, published a Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing ...
Aug 1, 2014 · We all know the ship Essex was sunk by a whale. It was a bizarre enough event for the instant creation of an oft repeated New England legend. But now it’s time to tell you once again about the very gruesome aftermath…. One hundred and ninety-five years ago this month, on August 12, 1819, the whaler Essex sailed out of Nantucket on one of ...
Apr 12, 2016 · Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820.
From Thomas Nickerson’s account The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk By a Whale and the Ordeal of the Open Boat Survivors. Illustrated by William J. Aylward. Courtesy of Nantucket Historical Association. The Fight to Survive. The whale rammed into the port side of the ship, knocking Chase and his men off of their feet.
Apr 28, 2014 · The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific.
Dec 31, 2014 · Bark Kathleen sunk by a whale by Jenkins, Thomas H. Publication date 1902 Topics Kathleen (Bark), Ann Alexander (Ship), Essex (Ship : 1806), Whaling, Shipwrecks ...
