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Sailors' superstitions are superstitions particular to sailors or mariners, and which traditionally have been common around the world. Some of these beliefs are popular superstitions, while others are better described as traditions, stories, folklore, tropes, myths, or legends.
According to myths, this whale is of enormous size and could swallow entire ships. It also resembles an island when it's sleeping, and unsuspecting sailors put ashore on its back. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When the sailors start a fire, the Devil Whale awakes and attacks the ship, dragging it to the bottom of the sea.
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers.
Herman Melville titles Chapter 53 of Moby-Dick, "The Gam."After explaining that the word does not appear in dictionaries, he gives his own definition: GAM. Noun - A social meeting of two (or more) Whale-ships, generally on a cruising- ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats' crews: the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief ...
axial fire Fire oriented towards the ends of the ship; the opposite of broadside fire. In the Age of Sail, this was known as "raking fire". aye, aye (/ ˌ aɪ ˈ aɪ /) A reply to an order or command to indicate that it, firstly, is heard; and, secondly, is understood and will be carried out (e.g. "Aye, aye, sir" to officers). Also the proper ...
A second ship later killed and claimed the whale, along with the first ship's boat and harpoon that had remained attached to it. The first crew sued the second for the value of the whale and equipment; the judge awarded the boat to the plaintiffs and the whale and harpoon to the defendants, saying that the plaintiffs had given up their rights ...
Naglfar is attested in both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda.In the Poetic Edda, Naglfar is solely mentioned in two stanzas found in the poem Völuspá.In the poem, a deceased völva foretells that the ship will arrive with rising waters, carrying Hrym and Loki and with them a horde of others:
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.