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   6 hours ago · A 1,036-foot-long cruise ship sailed into New York Harbor last Saturday with a dead endangered whale pinned to the ship’s bow. While a cause of death hasn’t been officially determined, investigators’ initial findings point toward a ship strike killing the 44-foot-long sei whale. Yet another incident to encourage sea creatures to attack ...

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   Was the Essex Sunk by a whale?

   • Camden Public Library The Essex, the ship Moby-Dick is based on, was sunk by a vengeful whale. In 1820, a whale rammed into an American whale-hunting ship in the South Pacific. It was the first time in American history that a whaling ship was assaulted by its prey in what seemed like a calculated attack.

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   Did a whale attack the Essex ship?

   • The whale was reportedly covered in scars and had been floating not far from the ship for some time, watching. Thomas Nickerson/Wikimedia Commons Cabin boy Thomas Nickerson sketched out the whale’s attack on the Essex ship. But after shooting a few warning spouts of water into the air, the whale barreled toward the vessel.

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   How many whaleships were there at the sinking of the Essex?

   • Thomas Heffernan has identified at leastseven whaleships that were in the neighborhood of the Essex at the sinking: three from Nantucket (the Governor Strong, the Thomas, and the Globe); three from New Bedford (the Balaena, the Per sia, the Golconda); and one from England (the Coquette) (p. 77).

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   What is the story behind the shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex?

   • The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex told the story in all its grisly detail. A young whaler named Herman Melville met Chase’s son, William Henry Chase, on a voyage to the Pacific. Young Chase offered the curious whaler a copy of his father’s book.

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