Owen Chase
Books
- Struck by a Whale The Essex Disaster and the True Story Behind Moby-Dick · Liszt Think
On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex in the remote Pacific. Twenty men took to three open whaleboats, choosing a perilous eastward course over feared cannibal islands.
- The Endless Green MeadowThe deck tilted under Owen Chase’s boots as the Essex cleared the harbor bar, and he kept his eyes on the receding shore not from sentiment but from professional habit: a l…
- A Vessel Fitted for the Sea…not yet been tested against was the moment when all the ordinary procedures failed, when the ledger of expected outcomes no longer applied. Owen Chase, twenty-one years old, shipped as first mate. The appointment placed him second in command of a vessel he expected one day to captain himse…
- The Blank Page of the Ocean…gear and paying wages for work not yet done. The ship that made this passage was, by the testimony of her first mate, thoroughly prepared. Owen Chase, twenty-one years old, recorded that she had lately undergone a thorough repair in her upper works and was pronounced sound and staunch. Th…