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The ship in the story is The Star of the East. While a British ship by the same name existed and sailed during the time in which the incident allegedly occurred and could have been near the Falklands at the right time, the relevant Star of the East was not a whaling vessel and its crew list did not include a James Bartley. [2]
On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the Nantucket Historical Association, the boat was ...
After the news of the lost fleet, a number of Salvage companies sent ships to the Arctic in 1872 to recover what valuable whale oil and whalebone that they could. [1] The first company that reached the wrecks was the Florence, a San Francisco salvage ship from a company formed by Mr. Thomas Williams and Samual Merritt. They found many of the ...
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 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 incident is not the first time that a whale has been spotted swimming near the Big Apple. In 2020, a humpback whale was seen in the Hudson River, apparently drawn by the presence of small fish.
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 ...
According to stories recounted at the Eden Killer Whale Museum, Aboriginals at Twofold Bay in New South Wales somehow combined with killer whales to drive right whales ashore. What can be said with certainty is that the discovery of a dead whale was a major event for those living near the coast.