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 ...

The short straw was drawn by Coffin, the captain’s 18-year-old cousin ... months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin, another Nantucket whaling vessel, sighted a small boat filled ...

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

Salvesen’s had two factory ships which were like a floating whaling station, but far more cramped – they could fully process the whales, and house hundreds of whalers and technicians like me.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Local researchers are using centuries-old whaling log books to study ... mostly in New Bedford — ...

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 ...

The vessel will replace Japan's only existing mother ship, the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru ... The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru.

Some of its more memorable displays include an 1849 Fresnel Lens from the old Sankaty Head Lighthouse ... presentation on The Essex, the local whaling ship that inspired "Moby Dick." ...

Activist Paul Watson has revealed a plan to take action against Iceland's whaling activities in June, while continuing to monitor whether Japanese ships return to the Southern Ocean to hunt the marine ...