Researchers are pouring over old whaling-ship logs at the Providence Public Library to see if the records can help us ...

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 a ...

In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack. Though some moments were dramatized, Howard's film remained faithful to ...

After an initial pause to swim and snorkel off a beach in West Timor, we anchor off the coast of Alor Island, briefly abandoning ship to witness ... to a global ban on whaling in all but a handful ...

Taiwan has accused a Chinese-owned ship of severing a critical data cable off its northern coast on Friday. Officials in Taipei discovered that four cores of an international submarine cable, which ...

Of the 20 men aboard the whaleship, only 8 survived the shipwreck. Following the destruction of their ship by the sperm whale, the survivors abandon the sinking ship and endure months adrift in ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...

KIHEI (HawaiiNewsNow) - A whale calf that beached itself on Maui did not survive the night. The baby humpback whale was found stranded inside the reef just off Halama Street in Kihei Thursday evening.

"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 ...

with demand inspiring sailors to risk life and limb on whaling ships. One particular real-life whaling-ship disaster inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick as well as, many years ...