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James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
The Ann Alexander depicted coming into Leghorn April 1807. [1]The Ann Alexander was a three-masted ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts.She is notable for having been rammed and sunk by a wounded sperm whale in the South Pacific on August 20, 1851, some 30 years after the famous incident in which the Essex was stove in and sunk by a whale in the same area.
The whale recovered, swam several hundred yards forward of the ship, and turned to face the ship's bow. [ 20 ] I turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550 yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect.
The French Basque ship La Catherine d'Urtubie made the first known voyage involving whale products in 1530, when she supposedly returned with 4,500 dried and cured cod, as well as twelve barrels of whale meat "without flippers or tail" (a phrase for whale meat in brine). After a period of development, expeditions were sent purely aimed at ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter said her father once sawed off a dead whale’s head and transported it on top of the family’s minivan as it leaked smelly juices for hours.
On 22 December 1822, Globe, with a complement of 21 men under the command of Captain Thomas Worth, set sail on a whaling expedition to the Pacific. After finding success in the "off Japan" whaling grounds Globe arrived in Honolulu for provisioning. According to testimony, "Six men ran away in the Sandwich Islands, and one was discharged." [6]
Aug. 16—A lack of feeding and in one case, a ship strike were likely the causes of death for a series of gray whales that washed ashore in the county through the summer. Numbers are a bit higher ...
The whale numbers less than 360 and has been in decline in recent years in large part because of collisions with ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear.