Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

On February 23, 1821, three months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin ... live on as a source of inspiration for one of America’s greatest novels, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick ...

“We knew we were definitely looking at an old whaling ship,” says Keogh ... From the western coast of South America, Pollard sailed to Hawaii, making it as far as the French Frigate Shoals ...

The remains of the only known whaling ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico shine a light on ... aside from Herman Melville’s 1851 classic "Moby Dick," it was America’s first global industry, spanning ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

In the ensuing centuries, as they depleted local populations of whales, starting with right whales, Basque efforts expanded north, influencing other nations in northern Europe and eventually North ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...

Marvel at five massive whale skeletons, the world’s largest ship model (Lagoda), and America’s longest painting. Explore whale science and conservation, learn how Yankee whalers sailed the ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...