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Chase died in
Nantucket on
March 7, 1869, aged 73.
Lawrence captained the
whaleships Dromo and
Huron before retiring and
buying a
small farm at Siasconset...
-
armed British whaleship captured the
French whaleship Hébé in
Walvis Bay.
During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy
captured two
British whaleships, Atlantic...
- In the
Heart of the Sea: The
Tragedy of the
Whaleship Es**** is a book by
American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the
whaler Es**** in the...
- Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book In the
Heart of the Sea: The
Tragedy of the
Whaleship Es****,
about the
sinking of the
American whaling ship Es**** in 1820, an...
- The
whaler Globe, of Nantucket, M****achusetts, was
launched in 1815. She made
three whaling voyages and then in 1824, on her fourth, her crew mutinied...
- True
Story of the
Whaleship Es**** was
written by
Nathaniel Philbrick. The 2002
historical book
recounts the 1820
sinking of the
whaleship Es**** by an enraged...
-
annual report of 1868, that in
November 1867, 42
American flags flew over
whaleships and
merchant vessels in
Honolulu to only six of
other nations. This increased...
-
airstrip and no
official registered po****tion. As
early as 1837
American whaleships visited the bay to
cooper their oil and hunt
sperm whales outside the...
-
returned to the islands,
naming them
after his
benefactor Joseph Banks.
Whaleships were
among the
first regular visitors to this
group of islands. The first...
- when he was
fourteen years old,
Nickerson served as
cabin boy on the
whaleship Es****. On this voyage, the ship was sunk by a whale, and the crew spent...
