What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...

There were 79 fatal boat strikes in the New York Bight Apex — which ... to the federal level — particularly on cruise ships and container ships which are the typical culprits for whale mortalities.

a whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., was attacked by a large sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to the Nantucket Historical Association, the boat was 1,300 miles from land.

It's the third dead whale to wash up on Delaware shores this year. A juvenile humpback beached itself and died just north of ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

Mystic Seaport Museum is working to open an exhibition space to show its American Watercraft Collection of rare vessels in ...

In 1876, the New Bedford whaling ship Catalpa sailed to western Australia and took part in the rescue of six Irish prisoners.

Their first boats were only 20 feet long ... A drawing from the journal kept by Captain Reuben Russell of the Nantucket whaling ship Susan depicts him atop the flukes of a right whale.

There were 79 fatal boat strikes in the New York Bight ... the same areas trafficked by cruise and cargo ships. Christopher St. Lawrence/Gotham Whale “If the public wants to protect all whale ...