According to Lost Fishermen From the Port of New Bedford, at 4:44 p.m. on Dec. 20 the Coast Guard received an emergency beacon signal from the fishing vessel Northern Edge, followed by a mayday ...
Since 1997, the museum has commemorated Melville's 1841 departure from the Port of New Bedford and Fairhaven aboard the whaleship Acushnet with this interactive mid-winter tradition. With the ...
"In 1841, on January 3, He set sail from the port of New Bedford on the Acushnet which was the whaling ship that he sailed for so many years." Experts call the whaling museum's read-a-thon the ...
Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in ...