‘Look, look, what ails the ship, she is upsetting’
Peter Nichols: The ship ‘Essex’, 8 March 2001
The Loss of the Ship ‘Essex’, Sunk by a Whale
by Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick et al.
Penguin, 231 pp., £7.99, June 2000,0 14 043796 7 Show More
by Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick et al.
Penguin, 231 pp., £7.99, June 2000,
“... with water. The ship began to list to port. With admirable foresight, William Bond, the ship’s black steward, went to the cabins and began to bring up the sea chests belonging to Chase and the Essex’s captain, George Pollard. Each contained quadrants, charts and navigation tables. Chase and his men unlashed the one remaining whaleboat, put the chests in ... ”