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

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 ...

the local whaling ship that inspired "Moby Dick." The Whaling Museum sits in a former candle factory in Nantucket Town. Admission starts at $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and students ...

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 ...

The ship quickly capsized, and 20 surviving sailors boarded three small whaleboats ... Thankfully, he and his crew were rescued the next day. That ended the captain’s whaling days, and he retired to ...

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 ...

The remains of the only known whaling ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico shine a light on the industry’s history of employing nonwhite crewmembers who could have been enslaved or imprisoned had they ...