Here’s everything to know about the real Essex whale attack — and the tragic events that followed. On Nov. 20, 1820, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale ...

But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings off the South American coast ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

Video of the incident appeared to show the Japanese ship severely damaging the Ady ... between the whalers and the activists into a “real whale war”. A statement on the Sea Shepherd website ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

After this expedition and a year exploring the West, Melville joined the crew of the whaling ship Acushnet in January of 1841. The thrilling adventure that occurred during the next three years ...

A Japanese whaling ship and an anti-whaling protest vessel collided in icy seas off Antarctica, with both sides blaming the other for the crash . No-one was injured though both ships were damaged in ...