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It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling Museum is the flagship site of the Nantucket Historical Association’s fleet of properties. Restored in 2005, the Nantucket Whaling Museum has an expanded exhibit and program space that connects the 1847 Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory and the 1971 Peter Foulger Museum.
Essex departed from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on what was expected to be a roughly two-and-a-half-year voyage to the whaling grounds off the west coast of South America. The route towards Cape Horn was an indirect one dictated by the prevailing winds of the Atlantic Ocean .
The William Rotch Jr. House, now the Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum, is a National Historic Landmark at 396 County Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the United States. The three families whose names are attached to it were all closely tied to the city's nineteenth-century dominance of the whaling industry.
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History of Whale oil on Nantucket on Plum TV; Whaling: Early Photos Archived 2009-11-10 at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine; Whaling in New Zealand in the 19th & 20th centuries; from Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand "Whaling Tools in the Nantucket Whaling Museum" by Robert E. Hellman
Globe sailed from Nantucket on 4 October 1815, bound for the Pacific. She returned on 1 January 1818 with 1890 barrels of sperm oil and 125 barrels of whale oil. 2nd whaling voyage (1818–1820): Captain Gardner sailed from Nantucket on 3 March 1818, bound for the Pacific. Globe returned on 29 May 1820 with 2090 barrels of sperm oil.
The museum is located at 18 Johnny Cake Hill in the heart of the city's historic downtown and is open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.whalingmuseum.org .
According to the Nantucket Current (@nantucketcurrent), the beached shark was discovered on Nantucket's Low Beach by Liza Phillips, who was visiting from California with her family and friends.At ...