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The whaling industry spread throughout the world and became very profitable in terms of trade and resources. Some regions of the world's oceans, along the animals' migration routes, had a particularly dense whale population and became targets for large concentrations of whaling ships, and the industry continued to grow well into the 20th century.
The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent out its last whaler, the John R. Mantra, in 1927. The whaling industry was engaged with the production of three different raw materials: whale oil, spermaceti oil, and whalebone. Whale oil was the result of "trying-out" whale blubber by heating in water.
With the advent of the whaling industry on the island in the 1880s Kīpahulu's population started to decline as people moved to main whaling ports such as Lahaina. In the early 1900s, one of the regular ports of call for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was Kīpahulu. Steamships provided passenger service around Maui and between the ...
History of the American Whale Fishery Industry; 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 ...
In 1841, the newspaper Polynesian, printed in Honolulu, advocated that the U.S. establish a naval base in Hawaii for the protection of American citizens engaged in the whaling industry. The British Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Crichton Wyllie, remarked in 1840 that, "... my opinion is that the tide of events rushes on to ...
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The most famous example is the fictional Pequod in Moby-Dick, based on the whaling industry in Nantucket and New Bedford. Whaleships carried multiple whaleboats, open rowing boats used to chase and harpoon the whale. The whaleship would keep watch from the crowsnest, so it could sail to