Portuguese Captain John T. Gonsalves commanded the legendary whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan on its last whaling voyage out of New Bedford in 1920, but an encounter with a German U-boat during ...

Fans flock to the museum in January for a 25-hour marathon reading of Melville’s epic “Moby Dick.” The event began in 1997 ...

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 ...

Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

WASHINGTON – A ship sailing in the same South Pacific waters as the vessel that was inspiration for the “Moby Dick” novel sank in a matter of minutes after it clashed with a whale. Rick Rodriguez and ...

LONDON — Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Greenland on Tuesday after five months in custody, and will not be extradited to Japan where he is wanted on charges of obstructing ...

Iceland has suspended the operations of one of its two whaling vessels for taking too long to kill a fin whale, the authorities and the boat's owner said on Friday. The government two weeks ago ended ...

Mystic — In the Thompson Exhibition Building at Mystic Seaport Museum, massive wrought-iron blubber hooks only begin to convey the scale of the task 19th century whalers faced. The two 43-inch-long, ...

(Adds response from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research) By Michael Perry SYDNEY, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Two anti-whaling activists were "taken hostage" and tied to a radar mast of a Japanese whaling ...