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New Bedford whaling was established when prominent Nantucket whaling families moved their operations to the town for economic reasons, and made New Bedford the fourth busiest port in the United States. In Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick [21] the narrator passes through New Bedford before beginning his whaling voyage from Nantucket.
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.
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 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.
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]
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").
Whaling ships from Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, would make the roughly 2,300-mile voyage east to go hunting. ... The money earned from whaling was used to pay for groceries, children ...
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