but America’s whaling industry would rebuild from this calamity to reach a golden age in the mid-1850s. The Theophilus Chase ...

After this expedition and a year exploring the West, Melville joined the crew of the whaling ship Acushnet in January ... would later support Melville in the late 1850s during his financial ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...