Some straight out of the SouthCoast with other answers such as on July 18, 2018, "In the 1800s this Massachusetts city was the world's leading whaling port." ...

Though it may seem modern, whales have been sinking boats since at least the 1800's. In 1820, a sperm whale sank a whaling boat. The lifeboats were later attacked by what may have been orcas.

Whaling voyages were risky and expensive, and most expeditions failed. But when they succeeded, the returns were outsized and able to offset the deluge of defeats.

The Whaling Museum & Education Center in Cold Spring Harbor will kick off a new series of holiday walking tours on Dec. 10. The tours will start at the museum, where people will be welcomed with ...

NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said the discovery will help tell the "story of how people of color succeeded as captains and crew members in the nascent American whaling industry of the early 1800s." ...

Whaling and DEI In a recent Freakonomics podcast, environmental economist Michele Baggio shared his research on the racial diversity of American whaling crews in the 1800s.

The whaling industry, which flourished in the 1800s, gave Black seamen the chance to not only make a living but also thrive during an era when it was dangerous just to have dark skin.

The museum has about 2,600 whaling logbooks dating from 1756 to 1965, but the project so far includes just about 300 logbooks related to whaling trips to the Arctic from the mid-1800s to the first ...

This relic of Massachusetts-based whalers, originally hurled in the late 1800s, is representative of the long-lasting impacts of commercial whaling on individual animals and their populations.

A 50-ton bowhead whale killed off the coast of Alaska was carrying a projectile that experts say must have been fired from a shoulder gun in the late 1800s. That means the whale lived at least 130 ...