Later in life I returned to the photographs I'd taken in Antarctica – and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

In 1876, the New Bedford whaling ship Catalpa sailed to western Australia and took part in the rescue of six Irish prisoners.

Earlier this month, a company unveiled a new "mother ship" at a port ... places that serve whale dishes Local enthusiasm is matched only by distaste in other parts of the world.

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 ...