Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data about shifting winds, storms and tides. At the Providence Public Library, maritime historian and UMASS Dartmouth ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through ... then to row out with harpoons on long lines to spear them, exhaust them, then drag them ...

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today. Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data ...

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Old whaling ship logbooks in a local library may offer up new insight into climate change. An unlikely project is unfolding at the Providence Public Library. Local historians and scientists are ...