Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 20, 1841
The importance of the American whaling trade in the Pacific is shown by the facts contained in a letter from an officer on board the United States frigate Constitution, written at Talcahuana in March last. He says: We have about 500 whaling ships employed in this ocean whose tonnage is probably over 150,000, employing 12,900 […]
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 4, 1879
That whales have found for themselves a northwest passage, is proven by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the continent, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Captain Bauldry, of the Helen Mar. took a right whale having in it […]
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Since it has been generally conceded that the fish which foundered Captain Larsen’s bark, Columbia, in mid-ocean, by thumping a big hole in her port bow must have been a whale, popular interest in the accident has palpably decreased. In truth, it was hardly more the strange disaster itself than the possibility of a new […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 4, 1885
[Detroit Free Press.] Â Â Â Â Immediately upon a whale being harpooned, he sounds, that is, goes under water at lightning speed, as does also the line to which he is attached, making it necessary to throw water upon it to prevent it from taking fire from the friction. It has been claimed that whales can run […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 8, 1879
A real whale was caught in the Raritan Bay, near Monmouth. The carcass of the enormous fish was anchored near an old fish-oil factory, where the lucky fishermen who struck a bonanza in the capture of a sperm whale melted the blubber in large iron pots. The whale was first seen about sunrise by a […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 18, 1902
[Copyright 1902 by C. B. Lewis] I was one of the crew of the whaling ship Crosby when I came across a gigantic whale that had often been seen before, that had destroyed many lives. He had come to be known as Tom Bowline and was recognized by a V shaped scar on his head. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, December 27, 1857
In a hump-backed whale, which was driven ashore at Nahant a short time since, a pair of boots marked “J.” were found in a good state of preservation. The Charleston Advertiser suggests that they might have been left behind by Jonah, when he made his sudden exit from the whale.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 28, 1874
The bark Kate Williams, Captain Hale, of the regular packet line between Boston and Fayal, which arrived at Boston on Friday last, had a remarkable escape on her passage. The Boston “Journal” thus described the incident. “About nine o’clock one morning a seaman aloft cried out that there was a whale on the port bow. […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, December 29, 1905
Whale Fights Several Swordfish and a Huge Shark-Conflick Witnessed by Many People. New York.-An exciting battle royal between a whale, several swordfish and a thrasher shark was witnessed by many passengers of an ocean liner which arrived in this port the other day from Liverpool. The fight lasted nearly an hour. The combatants were first […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, April 30, 1967
School of Whales Runs a Race in the Ocean with the Liner St. Louis. New York, July 13.-The story of a midocean race between a school of whales and the steamship St. Louis, of the American line, which lasted for miles and was only ended when a sixty-foot leviathan, the leader of the school, was […]