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	Whaleship Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sketch of the Whaleship Essex being struck by a whale 20 November 1820.
		On November 20, 1820, the Essex was struck by a sperm whale and sunk, 2,000 miles (3,700 km) off South America.
		In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whaleship_Essex (340 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Class from the Sea - Ocean History
		Whaleships moved lazily up the west coast of South America, zigging and zagging across a living sea of oil.
		In the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged Sperm whale.
		Even though it is little remembered today, the sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged Sperm whale, was one of the most well known maritime disasters of the 19th century.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/class/essex.html (197 words)

	PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Class from the Sea - Ocean History
		The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged Sperm whale was the event that inspired the climactic scene of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
		After the sinking of the whaleship Essex, Owen Chase could not rid his mind of the image of the huge sperm whale.
		The ramming of the Essex by a sperm whale.
	www.pbs.org /odyssey/class/mobydick.html (609 words)

	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Loss of the Ship "Essex" Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats.
		In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a National Book Award winning work of maritime history by Nathaniel Philbrick.
		It tells the story of the Whaleship Essex from the point of view of Thomas Nickerson who was a 14 year old cabin boy on the Essex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea:_The_Tragedy_of_the_Whaleship_Essex (207 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick - ...
		Of course, for the crew of the Essex, whale hunting was far preferable to the rigors and terrors of sheer survival in the vast Pacific.
		The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth.
		The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0141001828&z=y (1418 words)

	Essex - JMS Naval Architects & Salvage Engineers
		The story of the ESSEX involves the sinking of the whaleship in 1820 by a seemingly enraged giant sperm whale.
		JMS concluded that the ESSEX most likely would have resisted and survived the impact from the whale if at the time, the vessel were newly constructed or at least of relatively young age.
		The method of construction of the ESSEX — typical of wooden vessels of her type — was planks attached by pegs (trunnels or “tree nails”) to internal frames made up of wooden pieces also pegged together.
	www.jmsnet.com /essex.htm (313 words)

	Teenreads.com -- IN THE HEART OF THE SEA by Nathaniel Philbrick
		The tragic story of the whaleship Essex and her crew is the real life event that inspired Herman Melville to write his renowned 19th century classic.
		In 1820, when the Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine whale hunt, the crew of 20 men had no idea that 15 months later they would find themselves adrift in the vast Pacific at the mercy of the elements and their own human failings.
		At the time of the Essex's voyage, this tiny island was the center of the lucrative whale industry.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0141001828.asp (842 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex - A671492
		The Essex was fitted with four separate whaleboats, of around 20 to 30 feet in length, which were launched from the main ship.
		As he and the crew watched in alarm, the whale then proceeded to charge the Essex, and struck the bow of the vessel with sufficient force to knock some of the crew from their feet.
		It is not clear why the whale attacked the Essex at all, though it seems likely that by pure chance, Chase's hammering on the deck may have sent signals through the hull of the ship to the whale.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A671492 (2352 words)

	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Viking Adult
		The Essex had a number of "events" occur before making it to the South Pacific, which, in hindsight, should have given the crew a hint that this, indeed, could be an ill-fated voyage.
		The Essex was rammed by an eighty-five foot sperm whale, twice, which sent the 228-ton whaleship to it's death in the Pacific.
		Their ultimate journey from the death of the Essex to rescue was filled with hope, dispair, and human behavior none of the seamen thought they'd ever consider or engage in.
	www.luxurycruiseonline.com /stuff-0670891576.html (1944 words)

	Whaling Away - New York Times
		On a November day in 1820, still tethered to the floating hulk of the Essex, Capt. George Pollard and his crew bobbed on the Pacific swells in their tiny whaleboats and sought to comprehend what had happened.
		In fact, when the Essex sailed from Nantucket in 1819, an old but supposedly lucky ship, it set in motion a chain of events that inspired Melville.
		As he later wrote in ''Moby-Dick, ''I have seen Owen Chase who was chief mate of the Essex at the time of the tragedy; I have read his plain and faithful narrative; I have conversed with his son; and all within a few miles of the scene of the catastrophe.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6D6153DF937A35755C0A9669C8B63 (882 words)

	Whaleship Essex: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nantucket is an island south of cape cod, massachusetts, formed of glacial moraine....
		(the Essex was struck by a sperm whale and sunk, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Thomas nickerson (1805?-1883) was a fourteen-year-old cabin boy on the whale ship essex, who wrote an account of the boats sinking and the three months...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wh/whaleship_essex.htm (534 words)

	books about: essex (massachusetts questionable metropolitan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale.
		He tells the story of the Nantucket whaleship Essex, which sank in the Pacific in November 1820, after being deliberately rammed twice by an apparently enraged sperm whale.
		In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale.
	www.very-clever.com /books/essex (1087 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE ESSEX DISASTER
		And then there was the whaleship Essex, which embarked from Nantucket on August 12,1819, and sailed into the most harrowing nightmare in the disaster-rich annals of whaling.
		In October the Essex had put into the uninhabited Galápagos Islands (which a young naturalist named Charles Darwin was to visit fourteen years later aboard H.M.S. Beagle) in order to repair a leak and stock up on the island’s huge turtles before plunging westward along the equator to the new whaling grounds.
		The whale, having passed under the Essex, had turned around to attack it once more, “with twice his ordinary speed, and to me at that moment, it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect.” This time when it struck, the strangely malignant whale completely staved in the bow of the Essex.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1983/3/1983_3_49.shtml (6288 words)

	Rambles: Owen Chase, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Chase, the first mate of the Essex, was pursuing and slaughtering whales in the Pacific Ocean when one of the wounded sperm whales deliberately rammed the ship -- twice.
		While most of the crew was already in the small lifeboats -- tiny vessels from which they wielded their harpoons -- Chase and his men had returned to the Essex for repairs after a wounded whale's tail had breached the side of their boat.
		All too soon, Essex was sinking and the sailors were scrambling for the hastily patched lifeboat.
	www.rambles.net /chase_essex65.html (344 words)

	Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
		Nathaniel Philbrick carefully reconstructs the voyage and sinking of the whaleship Essex and the struggle of the crew to survive in open whaleboats in their attempt to reach South America and safety.
		In August 1819, the Essex left the harbor of Nantucket, bound for the Pacific whaling grounds.
	www.rambles.net /philbrick_essex.html (315 words)

	In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In July of 1819 the Essex was one of a fleet of more than seventy Nantucket whaleships in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
		Tethered to the wharves or anchored in the harbor were, typically, fifteen to twenty whaleships, along with dozens of smaller vessels, mainly sloops and schooners, that brought trade goods to and from the island.
		The Essex was old and, at 87 feet long and 238 tons displacement, quite small, but she had a reputation on Nantucket as a lucky ship.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780141001821,00.html (4932 words)

	Whales, the Whaleship Essex, Whaling
		In 1819, the Whaleship Essex left Nantucket for a routine whaling voyage.
		Indeed, their water and food severely restricted, the crew ultimately were forced to feed on those of their fellow crew members who had starved to death.
		There is evidence that the travail of the Essex was transformed by Herman Melville into the novel Moby-Dick.
	www.ralphmag.org /AF/whale.html (818 words)

	Thomas Nickerson Manuscript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Not telling anyone else on the Essex what he was up to, the michievous Chappel (who was, according to Nickerson, “fond of fun at whatever expense”) brought a tinderbox ashore with him.
		Charles would be one of the first islands in the Galapagos to lose its tortoise population [6].
		Although the crew of the Essex had already done its part in diminishing the world's sperm-whale population, it was here on this tiny volcanic island that they contributed to the eradication of a species.
	www.galapagos.to /TEXTS/NICKERSON.HTM (3478 words)

	SIL \| Press Room \| News \| Backgrounder - Nathaniel Philbrick
		It seemed to me that the Essex was something more than the raw material for Melville's miraculous art; it was a survival tale that also happened to be an essential part of American history.
		Where information concerning the Essex and her crew was lacking, I turned to other whaling voyages for examples of what had occurred under similar circumstances.
		The crew of the Essex were whalemen simply trying to make a living when they were attacked by an 85-foot whale.
	www.sil.si.edu /Press/backgrounder-nathaniel-philbrick_12_03.htm (2424 words)

	Alibris: Essex
		Philbrick brings to life the tale of how in 1820, the "Essex" was rammed by an enraged sperm whale and sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
		The late fl activist and poet Essex Hemphill follows in the footsteps of Joseph Beam with this powerful anthology of fiction, essays, and poetry by fl gay men.
		This first hand account of the harrowing story of a Nantucket whaleship sunk by a sperm whale on the Pacific and the fate of the 20 crew members thereafter is told by first mate Owen Chase.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Essex (1173 words)

	In the Heart of the Sea
		In the earlier half of the nineteenth century, the island of Nantucket was one of the whaling capitals of the world.
		The whaleship Essex, which left Nantucket in 1819, was just one of many similar ships that left the island each year.
		In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a masterpiece.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/reading_for_teens/55900 (473 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex: Books: Nathaniel Philbrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
		The Essex was based on Nantucket Island, and in the first part of the book there is a very interesting history of Nantucket and the Whaling Trade.
		The Essex was severely damaged and in danger of sinking after the whale attack, and the crew faced the grim prospect of a desperate journey in open boats across the Pacific Ocean.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141001828?v=glance (2990 words)

	Naval and Maritime History Books: The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex.
		One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose account of the long and perilous journey has become a classic of endurance and human courage.
		A survivor of one of the most chilling maritime disasters of the nineteenth century, his account of the ship's long and dangerous voyage has become a classic.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /WhaleshipEssex.html (259 words)

	In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick - A Book Excerpt
		The next morning, as they approached the island, Nickerson noticed that Pollard and his mates were strangely animated, speaking to each other with a conspiratorial excitement as they passed a spyglass back and forth, taking turns studying something on the beach.
		In a business as dangerous as whaling, boats were so frequently damaged in their encounters with whales that many whaleships were equipped with as many as three spare boats.
		From In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
	www.bookbrowse.com /excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=535 (494 words)

	Books : In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick.
		In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales.
		Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale.
	www.motorebooks.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amamotor.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0670891576 (1080 words)

	Book Bytes: Survivor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fifteen year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson and the rest of the crew of the whaleship Essex are stranded in their tiny whaleboats deep in the South Pacific Ocean.
		The 238 ton Essex was just attacked and sunk by a sperm whale.
		How the crew fights to survive thirst, hunger, and stormy seas and eventually sail over 4,500 miles to the South American shore is a gripping tale.
	www.ames.lib.ia.us /ys/teenzine/tzrealadv2.htm (198 words)

	Audio Books on Cassette and CD - Audio Editions audio books on tape and CD
		In 1820, the 238-ton whaleship Essex was destroyed by an enraged sperm whale in the middle of the South...
		In 1820, the 238-ton whaleship Essex was destroyed by an enraged sperm whale in the middle of the South Pacific.
		For the 20-man crew, it was the beginning of unimaginable horror.
	www.audioeditions.com /af.cfm?prtf=1&isbn=0974171190 (132 words)

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