Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cadmus returned with 107 barrels of sperm oil, 1,468 barrels of whale oil, and 12,622 pounds of whale bone. [9] 4th whaling voyage (1831–1832): Captain Howell sailed in 1831 and returned in 1832 with 2,150 barrels of whale oil. [10] 5th whaling voyage (1832–1833): Captain Howell sailed in 1832 and returned in 1832 with 1,150 barrels of ...
Sag Harbor became a major port for the whaling industry, and the processing and sale of this oil. By 1789 Sag Harbor had "had more tons of square-rigged vessels engaged in commerce than even New York City." [7] It had become an international port.
The museum is filled with the equipment of the whaling ships: guns, try pots, flensing knives, blubber spades, figureheads, and a large collection of scrimshaw carvings etched on whale ivory. In the Harpoon Room, harpoons line the walls along with whale vertebrae and shipbuilding tools. Elsewhere are paintings of 19th-century whale hunts. [1]
New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Nearly two centuries later New Bedford aspires to light the world again, in a ...
Marker at 43 Church st, Sag harbor - for the Old Barn Church, called the Atheneum. The "Old Barn Church" was torn down and a second church built in 1816, using lumber recycled from the old building. When the 1816 building became too small, as the congregation expanded through the Second Great Awakening, the present building was built in 1844.
An upcoming sale of federal Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases was officially postponed Thursday amid legal fights over protections for an endangered species of whale. A federal appellate panel ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Whale oil was the result of "trying-out" whale blubber by heating in water. It was a primary lubricant for machinery, whose expansion through the Industrial Revolution depended upon before the development of petroleum-based lubricants in the second half of the 19th century. Once the prized blubber and spermaceti had been extracted from the ...