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 ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting April 17 an event about Pico, Azores, featuring a book release, film screening ...

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 ...

The New Bedford, Massachusetts, Daily Mercury, the hometown paper of the American whaling industry, called it “a bulky, queer-looking volume, in some respects ‘very like a whale’ even in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...