The men just had time to save some of the provisions and regroup in three small whaling boats before their ship succumbed to the waves. “My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?” Captain Pollard ...

The former Blue Plaque home of American author Herman Melville, where he wrote early drafts of Mody-Dick in the late 1840s, has gone on the market for £9m. The five-bedroom, four-storey townhouse on ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale ... that tighter ship speed rules ...

Giant ships that transport everything from coffee cups to clothes across the ocean are often so large they can’t tell when they collide with a whale ... on board the ship,” said Anna Nisi ...

ship strikes have killed not only three calves but two mothers as well. We don’t have another two years to wait for a long-overdue rule. NMFS has to act quickly to slow down vessels on the southern ...