But times were changing: Whale populations in the North ... a violent squall battered the Essex, terrifying the inexperienced crew. The ship began to creak and listed dangerously.

Here’s everything to know about the real Essex whale attack — and the tragic events that followed. On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale ...

It is about the whaling ship "Essex," which sank after being attacked by a sperm whale. Nickerson is based on the ship's cabin boy and played by Brendon Gleeson in the movie's present timeline ...

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 remains of the only known whaling ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico shine a light on the industry’s history of employing nonwhite crewmembers who could have been enslaved or imprisoned had they ...

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 ...