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n. A ship used for hunting whales.
Usage examples of "whaleship".
Also, as a preliminary, we attended a feast, where one Taiara Tamarii, the son of an Hawaiian sailor who deserted from a whaleship, commemorated the death of his Marquesan mother by roasting fourteen whole hogs and inviting in the village.
CHAPTER 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whaleship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there.
The very whalebone had been home-shaped of the raw material from the whaleships traded for in hides and tallow.
Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.
As was customary aboard a whaleship, the food served in the forecastle (where the blacks lived) had been a grade below the miserable fare that had been served to the boatsteerers and young Nantucketers in steerage.
And as for the matter of the alleged uncleanliness of our business, ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown, and which, upon the whole, will triumphantly plant the sperm whaleship at least among the cleanliest things of this tidy earth.
Over the next two years, the 376-ton, copper-fastened whaleship Charles Carroll took shape under Chase's experienced eye, and with an investment of $625 he was given a 1/32 owners' share in the vessel.
See “A Relic of the Whaleship Essex” in the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror (August 22, 1986) and “A Valuable Relic Preserved” in the Garrettsville Journal (September 3,1896).
Model maker Mark Sutherland and marine artist Len Tantillo shared their knowledge of early nineteenth-century whaleships, while naval architect Peter Smith at Hinkley Yachts provided a quantitative analysis of what wouldhappen when a whale rammed a ship.