Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, October 28, 1850
An account has been published in the Boston papers of an attack made upon the baroque Parker Cook, July 22nd, by a large sperm whale. Capt. G. Smith, of the schooner Union, just arrived at Boston, has given further details of the singular affair. “The whale was a very large one, yielding one-hundred and three […]
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, December 13, 1736
The Dutch have taken this year 589 Whales on the coast of Greenland and the French and Spaniards together have taken 70 Whales.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 7, 1853
The Parisian Boulevards were the scene of great animation a few weeks ago. A large chariot, drawn by twenty horses, carrying the carcass of a whale, was proceeding in the direction of the Jardin des Plantes. Strange to say, it was caught near the coast of Normandy, and is supposed to have lost its was […]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1880
Among the inhabitants of the sea which, from their size or strength, have been termed “monarchs of the ocean,” are the saw-fish and the swordfish, which are formidable enemies to the whale; but it is not merely on their fellow-inhabitants of the deep that these powerful fishes exercise their terrible strength. Some singular instances are […]
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 21, 1849
The whaling barque Superior, Capt. Royce of Sagharbor, arrived at Honolulu on the 4th Sept. last, with 1,800 barrels of whale oil, which she took in the Arctic Seas. In an account of his successful voyage, furnished the “Friend,” Capt. Royce says: I entered the Arctic Ocean about the middle of July, and cruised from […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 15, 1849
The following is an account of a wonderful sea fight, taken from a late Dublin paper: Capt. Rochefort, of the British and Irish Company’s crew vessel Rose, arrived yesterday morning from London, and reported having on his passage fallen in with a whale of huge dimensions one morning, at two o’clock, seven miles S. W. […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 5, 1849
Capt. Seabury, of the ship Minerva, which arrived at Lahaina on the 15th of August, reports hearing from the ship Alert, Green, in the first part of the season, who, being on the Tartary Coast, sent two boat’s crews in after wood. They not returning as expected, he sent a third boat, which was also […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 15, 1833
The Middletown [Conn.] Gazette, furnishes the following case of remarkable presence of mind of the master of a Whale ship, when in a situation of the most imminent peril: Captain Chester, of the Whaling ship Ann Maria, of this place, on her late voyage round the East Cape, met with the following adventure. One of […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, August 15, 1835
Not long since, a story, from a Nantucket paper, was published respecting a narrow escape of a young man from the jaws of a whale, in the Pacific Ocean. The following is his letter to his mother: Pacific Ocean. Lat. 5 N. S. Lon. 109 d. W.-Dear Mother-Having a good opportunity to write, I improve […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, July 25, 1835
The Nantucket Enquirer says, that a Mr. Hale, of that Island, was recently seized by a whale, while sailing in an open boat, and shaken for some moments as a cat shakes a rat and then thrown to the distance of several yards. The editor adds, that the whales have become unusually fierce and cross. […]