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Essex set sail with a crew of twenty-one men. Twelve, including the officers and two of the three boatsteerers, were born or raised in Nantucket while nine were off-islanders, of whom seven were black. The captain, 29-year-old George Pollard Jr., had sailed as second mate of Essex in 1815-1816, and as first mate in 1817-1819.
As first mate of Essex, 21-year-old Owen Chase left Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on a two-and-a-half-year whaling voyage. On the morning of November 20, 1820, a sperm whale (said to be around 85 feet; 26 m) twice rammed Essex, sinking her 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of South America.
The Essex struck by a whale, a sketch by Thomas Nickerson. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Two boaters were flung into the Atlantic Ocean when the whale struck the rear of the vessel. They were rescued by good Samaritans, according to the Coast Guard. Dramatic video shows whale ...
Video shows the whale breaching the water and striking the rear of the boat. At least one of the boaters is seen plunging into the water. ocean whale breach animal wild (Courtesy Colin Yager)
Rick Rodriguez and crew of three spent 10 hours on a lifeboat and dinghy after collision
Frederick escorted the two guided-missile hydrofoil gunboats as far as Rodman in the Canal Zone where El Paso (LKA-117) took over. Aquila and her traveling companions transited the Panama Canal on 8 August and arrived in Key West three days later. The warship spent the remainder of 1982 conducting shakedown and other training out of her base at ...
A whale strikes a boat off coast of Rye, N.H. on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, toppling two boaters into the water, who were rescued moments later by the boaters in the foreground.