Dauphin
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 Second Ship…horror would end not with divine deliverance but with the routine, almost bureaucratic intervention of another working vessel—the whaleship Dauphin, Captain Zimri Coffin, whose log for February 5, 1821, records nothing more remarkable than wind from the east-southeast and sail trim adju…
- The Captain’s ReckoningThe log of the whaleship Dauphin records for the morning of February 6, 1821, a position of 34°22′S, 84°20′W: the vessel beating west-northwest in light winds, the lookouts…
- The Man Who Was Left BehindWhen the crew of the whaleship Dauphin hauled George Pollard and Charles Ramsdell from their boat on February 23, 1821, they believed they had found the last living fragments of…