While what happened to the crew of that ill-fated ship is an epic unto itself ... Archaeologists had located the underwater wreck of a 19th-century whaling vessel and solved a Nantucket mystery.

The current threats are the possibility of ship strikes and fishing ... and even the regulations in the 20th century under the International Whaling Commission were too weak to change that.

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. “Death to the living, Long life to the killers, Success to sailors’ wives, And greasy luck to ...

The remains of the only known whaling ship to sink in the Gulf of Mexico shine a light ... spanning prerevolutionary times through the start of the 20th century, when whale oil lit the streetlamps ...

with whaling nations establishing remote land stations and deploying factory ships that could spend months at sea processing whale oil on board. By the 20 th century, industrial-scale commercial ...

Not until the early 20th century ... boy on the merchant ship the St. Lawrence. After this expedition and a year exploring the West, Melville joined the crew of the whaling ship Acushnet ...

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 ...

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 ...