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2. Nantucket shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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   At 350 tons, Nantucket was the first Nantucket Island ship built of Live oak with copper fastenings. The construction cost for the vessel was $52,000. [15] Nantucket's short life ended when she was wrecked in 1859. Two whale ships under construction at Brant Point, Nantucket – on the launch ways and on “camels”, nd.

3. Essex (whaleship) - Wikipedia

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   Essex. (whaleship) Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., the ship was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale. About 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) from the coast of South America ...

4. Globe (1815 whaleship) - Wikipedia

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   Globe. (1815 whaleship) The whaler Globe, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was launched in 1815. She made three whaling voyages and then in 1824, on her fourth, her crew mutinied, killing their officers. Eventually most of the mutineers were killed or captured and the vessel herself was back in Nantucket in her owners' hands.

5. Starbuck (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   Obed Starbuck was born on May 11, 1797, also in Nantucket, and died June 27, 1882. Whaling in the Pacific for many years, Obed made a number of significant voyages. Sailing on the Hero 1822-1824, which returned to Nantucket with 2,173 barrels of sperm oil, he discovered an island on 5 September 1823, located at 5°32' S, 155°5' W, since known ...

6. Nantucket (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The Nantucket was a 350-ton whaler built in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1837.First master, David N. Edwards, 1837-40 (left ship, replaced by F. C. Sanford), then: George Washington Gardner, 1841–45; [1] Benjamin C. Gardner, 1845–50; Richard C. Gibbs 1850-54 (rescued Captain John Deblois and his crew two days after the ship Ann Alexander was sunk by a whale); Richard C. Gibbs (1855–59).

7. Live Out Your Bougie New England Era at These Nantucket ... - AOL

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   Greydon House. Warning: If you book at room at Greydon House, you just might never leave. This 20-room boutique hotel, initially build in 1850 for a ship captain, opened in 2016, with designs by ...