A pirate capture, a castaway island...In 1722, a young fisherman named Philip Ashton became the central figure in what became ...

A pair of Bryde’s whales were recently spotted off the coast of Thailand, delighting conservation officials. The large marine ...

In 2018, after 148 years of family ownership, Claudio’s was sold to new owners, ending its run as the oldest family-run establishment in the nation. The original building dates to 1845.

Few have endured what Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen did. Abandoned by their ship, these two Danes spent two winters in a ...

After touching at Buenos Aires in November the ship got into the ice in mid December ... to rescue the men left on the beach: meanwhile a whaler was got ready and an attempt was made to reach ...

Sinners features a great villain in the form of Remmick, a red-eyed fiend played by an actor who's done some excellent work ...

As a cynicism-salted sailor who embarks on a perilous whaling voyage, the marvelous actor John Gallagher Jr.gives a performance of such vibrancy and dark ferocity in the Broadway musical “Swept ...

The ship made an abrupt 90-degree turn to starboard ... Last year, a local couple were powering their Boston Whaler through the Western Passage, the body of water between Maine and Deer Island.

It had been built in England and shipped across the Atlantic in two sections in the hold of a larger ship. It was strong ... who carried his whaler on a trailer and introduced us to the mayor ...

1906 as a whaler, and is constructed wholly of wood ... which in an emergency renders the ship independent of the wind. The length over all is 183.7 feet, the beam measures 34.4 feet, and the ...

In the last ten days of March, 1943, U-boat ship sinkings dramatically dropped ... near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod ...