The Earliest Picture of the Essex Disaster - Nantucket Historical

Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex - Illustrated - NARRATIVE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINAR: Original News Stories of Whale Attacks & Cannabilism: Chase, Owen, Nickerson, Thomas, Rossignol, Ken, Editors, Huggins Point, Mackey

The Essex and Its Legacy - Nantucket Historical Association

The True-Life Horror That Inspired 'Moby-Dick', History

Revisiting the Essex tragedy, 200 years later - The Boston Globe

Smithsonian Collections Blog: Vengeance in his aspect: When a Whale Hunted a Ship

George Pollard, Jr. was the captain of the Essex when an 80-ton whale attacked and sank the whaleship today in 1820 inspiring Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Now WE know em

Whaleship Essex Sinking and Aftermath

On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (Penguin Classics): Philbrick, Nathaniel, Nickerson, Thomas, Philbrick, Thomas: 9780140437966: : Books

Nathaniel Philbrick - First mate Owen Chase's house on Orange Street, Nantucket. Late in life, still haunted by his memories of the Essex disaster, Chase began hiding food in the house's attic.