Nanhai No 1 is truly special. It’s the most complete ancient ship ever found. By studying the ship and its treasures, we can see the incredible skill of Chinese craftspeople and how important ...
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History ... were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to ...
Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be ...
The first whaling vessels were small, thirty-ton sloops fitted for voyages of only a few weeks’ duration. Typically, these ships captured a single whale on each cruise, and therefore the methods for ...
"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...
First, the whaling ships netted the “right whale” – these whales swam slowly and floated once killed. By the mid-1700s, Nantucket earned the title “Whaling Capital of the World.” ...