The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a whitewater wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cathead on the port bo...
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