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2. Timeline of Nantucket - Wikipedia

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   The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, ... 1712 – Sperm whaling begins. [6] 1713 – Tuckernuck Island becomes part of Nantucket County. [6]

3. History of whaling - Wikipedia

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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

4. 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.

5. Nantucket shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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   History of Nantucket Whaling Video presentation by the Director of the Nantucket Historical Association, May, 2008. The 'Charles W. Morgan', New Bedford, Massachusetts 1841. Video tour of the last wooden hulled whaling ship afloat in the United States, February, 2008.

6. Whaling in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The story of old Nantucket; a brief history of the island and its people from its discovery down to the present day. Nantucket: The Inquirer and mirror press "Race Revive Old Whaling Days of Old" Popular Mechanics, November 1930 "A Brief History of Pacific Coast Whaling" by Nicholas J. Lee

7. The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching - AOL

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   Whaling ships from Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, would make the roughly 2,300-mile voyage east to go hunting. In the age before the discovery of crude oil, the use of spermaceti (the ...

8. Starbuck (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   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 as Starbuck Island (also called "Hero Island").

9. Coffin (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   Tristram Coffin, born in 1609 in Brixton, Devon, sailed for America in 1642, first settling in Newbury, Massachusetts, then moving to Nantucket. [1] [2] The Coffins, along with other Nantucket families, including the Gardners and the Starbucks, began whaling seriously in the 1690s in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. [1]