Since the old days, some species of whales have almost fully recovered. Some are still imperiled and some species will soon ...

On February 23, 1821, three months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin, another Nantucket whaling vessel, sighted a small boat filled with sun-bleached bones with the emaciated ...

Whaling started as early as the 1650s in northeast US, predominantly in Nantucket. First, the whaling ships netted the “right whale” – these whales swam slowly and floated once killed.

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

It tells the harrowing story of the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship whose catastrophic voyage actually inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece, Moby-Dick. The film explores the perilous whaling ...

One particular real-life whaling-ship disaster inspired Herman Melville ... 14 months into a lengthy mission that has take his crew far from their Nantucket homes, a whale attack destroys ...

becoming the third busiest whaling port after New Bedford and Nantucket in Massachusetts. However, the harbor's rocky waters soon became troublesome for business, leading to a need for a lighthouse to ...