What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Since 2019 it has only caught whales in its own waters. But in May, Japan launched the Kangei Maru, a whaling mother ship. Activists believe this means Japan intends to resume whaling in the ...

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 ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...

Japanese whaling mother ship, 9,000 tons Kangei Maru, which the CPWF foundation wants to intercept The Greenland police reported it had arrested environmental activist Paul Watson when his ship ...

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...