- He 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- Chase's narrative: "For,
while I was in the
Acushnet we
heard from some
whaleship that we spoke, that the
captain of the "Charles Carrol" - that is Owen...
-
Pollard and
Ramsdell sailed on and were
rescued on
February 23 by the
whaleship Dauphin. For a time the
crews of Dauphin, Two Brothers, Hero, and Diana...
