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American Double-Flued Whaling Harpoon
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Bent American Double-Flued Whaling Harpoon
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Photographic Portrait of Benjamin Lawrence
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Photographic Portrait of Owen Chase
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Essex on November 23 1820 at Noon A drawing of a whaleship without sails, rigging, or even masts, most of its hull underwater.
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Photographic Portrait of Thomas Nickerson
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Essex at 9.30 AM November 20th A drawing of a sailing ship laying almost on its side, its deck facing away from the viewer. While hunting whales almost two thousand miles off the coast of Peru in the “Offshore Ground” in November 1820, the Essex was attacked twice within ten minutes by an unusually large bull sperm whale.
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Essex on November 20th 1820 at 8 1/2 AM A drawing of a sperm whale and a sailing ship, the whale’s head facing the ship’s bow. While hunting whales almost two thousand miles off the coast of Peru in the “Offshore Ground” in November 1820, the Essex was attacked twice within ten minutes by an unusually large bull sperm whale. Nickerson, who was fifteen years old at the time, was steering the Essex when the attacks occurred. The whale is estimated to have struck the Essex at three knots (3.4 miles per hour/5.5 kilometres per hour) the first time and between six knots (6.9 miles per hour/11.1 kilometres per hour) and nine knots (10.3 miles per hour/16.6 kilometres per hour) the second time, puncturing the ship’s bow. It is unclear which strike is depicted in Nickerson's drawing.
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Spermo Cutting In Whales On Japan, 1822 A painting of a black whaleship in choppy water red with blood, two whale carcasses floating along the ship’s starboard side. A strip of flesh has been cut from the whale closest to the ship and seems to hang from its rigging. The process of breaking down a whale carcass was referred to as “cutting in.” The whaleship depicted is Spermo of Nantucket.
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Twine A coil of twine sewn to a brown backing in an ivory frame. The backing features two handwritten inscriptions, one encircled by the twine and one encircling the twine.