On February 23, 1821, three months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin, another Nantucket whaling vessel, sighted a small boat filled with sun-bleached bones with the emaciated ...

14 months into a lengthy mission that has take his crew far from their Nantucket homes, a whale attack destroys their ship. The sailors continue to fight for survival, starving in tiny sailboats ...

The whales are North Atlantic right whales, which number fewer than 400 and are vulnerable to ship collisions and ... Like one of the whales spotted off Nantucket, the whale spotted off North ...