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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 ...
MarineTraffic is a maritime analytics provider, [1] which provides real-time information on the movements of ships and the current location of ships in harbors and ports. [2] A database of information on the vessels includes for example details of the location where they were built plus dimensions of the vessels, gross tonnage and International ...
The whale recovered, swam several hundred yards forward of the ship, and turned to face the ship's bow. [ 20 ] I turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550 yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect.
A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed ...
No people were found living on it; all that was found was a cat and a dog. The crew aboard was never seen again. The ship itself was sold to a merchant of Newport, renamed the Beach Bird under which name she made many voyages. [24] [25] [26] 28 October 1758 Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda: 56–57 Irish Sea
Globe made three whaling voyages (1815–18, 1818–21, and 1821–22), under Captain George Washington Gardner.. 1st whaling voyage (1815–1818): On this voyage she became the first vessel to return with 2000 barrels of oil.
The whale numbers less than 360 and has been in decline in recent years in large part because of collisions with ships and entanglement in commercial fishing gear.
Marine animal experts are investigating the death of a 50-foot-long fin whale discovered across the bow of cruise ship in the Port of Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday.