The short straw was drawn by Coffin, the captain’s 18-year-old cousin ... months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin, another Nantucket whaling vessel, sighted a small boat filled ...

Later in life I returned to the photographs I'd taken in Antarctica – and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Local researchers are using centuries-old whaling log books to study ... mostly in New Bedford — ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

Sympathetic merchant ship or cruise liners that happen to catch sight of the whaling fleet on its route ... crew so desperately want to save. A gruff old man with a pained look bustled up to ...

The vessel will replace Japan's only existing mother ship, the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru ... The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru.

Some of its more memorable displays include an 1849 Fresnel Lens from the old Sankaty Head Lighthouse ... presentation on The Essex, the local whaling ship that inspired "Moby Dick." ...