Adams' argument is rejected, and the duty upheld. War of 1812: As during the Revolution, American whaling vessels are preyed upon by the British Navy; several dozen are either seized or destroyed ...

Smith assembled a team of scientists and historians to determine the effect that 19th century American offshore whaling had on whales. In 2010, the team finished up a 10-year project of assembling ...

Great Britain started hunting bowhead whales around the North American colonies in 1611 and American colonists began whaling (a practice known as Yankee whaling) out of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in ...

But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings off the South American coast ...

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the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Columbia County Historical Society. It focuses on Hudson’s beginnings and its era of whaling and maritime trade.

A watercolour of an early American whaling expedition, circa 1875. Whaling was a major industry. Before the widespread use of fossil fuels, whale oil was used in a huge range of products ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

Sea Shepherd France told journalists they had delivered a letter from the notorious anti-whaling activist to French ... said ...