On July 23, 1897, 21-year-old Thomas Birnbaum scribbled an update into the logbook for the Arctic whaling ship Navarch: “ship still in ice.” Correction appended. On July 23, 1897, 21-year-old Thomas ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a good ...

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STORY: Japan's first domestically produced whaling mothership in 70 years arrived in Tokyo on Thursday ahead of its maiden hunting expedition off the country’s northeastern coast. The Kangei Maru will ...

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Nearly 190 years later, experts say, it's ...

Old whaling ship logbooks in a local library may offer up new insight into climate change. An unlikely project is unfolding at the Providence Public Library. Local historians and scientists are ...

A nearly two-century old shipwreck found in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana is being hailed as a rare and highly prized artifact of forgotten African American history. Named the Industry, the ...

A little after 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday, December 7, 1887, in the aftermath of remarkably strong northeasterly winds, Captain William A. Martin instructed the crew of the Eunice H. Adams, a ...

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The wreckage of a whaling ship that sank in the Gulf of Mexico nearly two centuries ago appears to have been found, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week. In a news ...

Local News A whaling ship from Mass. sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River 190 years ago. Researchers now believe they’ve found the wreck. This image taken by NOAA Ocean Exploration in February ...