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2. Gam (nautical term) - Wikipedia

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   Gam is a nautical term to describe one whaling ship (or "whaler") paying a social visit to another at sea. [1] The term was first used to describe a school of whales, and whalemen may have taken its meaning from that source.

3. Essex (whaleship) - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Category:Whaling ships - Wikipedia

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   Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Adventure (1804 ship) African Queen (1797 ship) HMS Alderney (1757) Alexander (1801 ship Shields) Allison (1795 ship) USS Amazon; Amelia (1795 ship) Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) USS American (1861) Amity (1801 ship) Amphitrite (1789 ship) Andrew Marvel (1812 ship) Ann Alexander (ship) Anna Augusta (1801 ship) Antarctic ...

5. Environmental groups sue to force government to finalize ship ...

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   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.

6. Traffic jam persists as ship is blocking Suez Canal ... - AOL

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   It could take weeks to unblock a massive container ship wedged in the Suez Canal like a "beached whale," officials said Thursday as the standstill in the critical waterway continued. An estimated ...

7. Owen Chase - Wikipedia

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   The ship sailed for the Pacific grounds in mid July 1828, returning early July 1830. [ 3 ] Relatively wealthy from his successful whaling voyages, Chase now stayed in Nantucket for two years to supervise the construction at the Brant Point shipyards of his own whaler, the Charles Carrol , which sailed on October 10, 1832, for a three-and-a-half ...

8. Japan dismayed as Denmark frees anti-whaling activist ... - AOL

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   Japan said it was disappointed after Denmark rejected its extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson.. Mr Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd group, was released from jail in ...

9. George Pollard Jr. - Wikipedia

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   George Pollard Jr. was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son of Tamar Pollard (née Bunker) and George Pollard, a ship's captain, [2] at a time when the principal industry there was hunting sperm whales to harvest the oil contained in their blubber and spermaceti. [3]