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As America’s oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, the Charles W. Morgan has a complex story to tell.
Elaborating on earlier volumes on the ship's history at Mystic Seaport Museum, this new book offers an expanded account, chronicling the ship's construction and launch in 1841 through its Thirty-Eighth Voyage in 2014—the first time the Morgan had been sailed in more than ninety years—and its continuing role today as an historic icon and the Museum’s flagship vessel. Chapters paint a picture of how whaling developed in Europe and the ways New England colonists adopted it as a profitable venture, and then, through the ship’s own story, proceed to sketch the evolution of America’s relationship with nature—and the whale, specifically—and with the many peoples of the world who were encountered by, or served aboard, a whaleship.
This is the story of a National Historic Landmark—one that reflects our changing relationship with the natural world and with the diverse populations of the globe through two centuries of American history.
Elaborating on earlier volumes on the ship's history at Mystic Seaport Museum, this new book offers an expanded account, chronicling the ship's construction and launch in 1841 through its Thirty-Eighth Voyage in 2014—the first time the Morgan had been sailed in more than ninety years—and its continuing role today as an historic icon and the Museum’s flagship vessel. Chapters paint a picture of how whaling developed in Europe and the ways New England colonists adopted it as a profitable venture, and then, through the ship’s own story, proceed to sketch the evolution of America’s relationship with nature—and the whale, specifically—and with the many peoples of the world who were encountered by, or served aboard, a whaleship.
This is the story of a National Historic Landmark—one that reflects our changing relationship with the natural world and with the diverse populations of the globe through two centuries of American history.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Chasing the Whale
- Chapter 2: Building a Ship, 1840–1841
- Chapter 3: A Traditional Voyage and a Transitional One, 1841–1848
- Chapter 4: Charles W. Morgan Sells His Namesake, 1849–1863
- Chapter 5: Mrs. Landers Comes Aboard, 1863–1867
- Chapter 6: From Ship to Bark, 1867–1881
- Chapter 7: The Longest Voyage, 1881–1886
- Chapter 8: Outward Bound from San Francisco, 1886–1890
- Chapter 9: Captain Earle Goes Whaling in a Changing World, 1890–1904
- Chapter 10: Return to New Bedford, 1904–1913
- Chapter 11: Last Days of Whaling Under Sail, 1916–1921
- Chapter 12: Museum Ship, 1922–Present
- Chapter 13: The Thirty-Eighth Voyage, 2014
- Sources and Further Reading
- A Glossary of Whaling Terms
- Appendix I: Charles W. Morgan Logbooks and Manuscript Sources
- Appendix II: Summary of Voyages of the Charles W. Morgan
- Appendix III: Charles W. Morgan Crew Lists