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  2. Whaleboat - Wikipedia

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    A modern copy of a whaleboat at Mystic Seaport.The mast is stowed with its heel under the after thwart and resting on the gunwale on the starboard quarter. The 2 tubs containing the whale rope are in the after half of the boat, and the rope is led round the loggerhead and then forward to the bow, between the chocks.

  3. Whaler - Wikipedia

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    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 the signal and lash the dead whale alongside. Then the work of flensing (butchering) began, to separate the whale

  4. Essex (whaleship) - Wikipedia

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    On the leeward side of Essex, Chase's whaleboat harpooned a whale, but its tail struck the boat and opened up a seam, forcing the crew to cut the harpoon line and return to Essex for repairs. Two miles away off the windward side, Pollard's and Joy's boats each harpooned a whale and were dragged towards the horizon away from Essex. [19]

  5. History of whaling - Wikipedia

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    Once a whale was sighted, rowing boats were sent from the shore. If the whale was successfully killed it was towed ashore, flensed (i.e., the blubber was cut off), and the blubber boiled in cauldrons known as "try pots". Even when whales were caught far offshore, the blubber was still boiled on shore well into the 18th century.

  6. Charles W. Morgan (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Charles W. Morgan 2022 in Mystic. Charles W. Morgan (often referred to simply as "the Morgan") was a whaling ship named for owner Charles Waln Morgan (1796–1861). He was a Philadelphian by birth; he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1818 and invested in several whalers over his career. [8]

  7. Category:Whaling ships - Wikipedia

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    A. A. T. Gifford; SS Aberdeen (1912) Achilles (1813 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Admiral Barrington (1781 ship) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Adventure (1804 ship)

  8. Nantucket sleighride - Wikipedia

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    A Nantucket sleighride is the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale while whaling. It is an archaic term from the early days of open-boat whaling, when the animals were harpooned from small open boats. Once harpooned, the whale, in pain from its wound, attempts to flee, but the rope attached to the harpoon drags the whalers' boat along ...

  9. Whaling - Wikipedia

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    To the left, the black-hulled whaling ships. To the right, the red-hulled whale-watching ship. Iceland, 2011. Number of whales killed since 1900. Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.