Nantucket (Ship)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Nantucket was a 350 ton whaleship built in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1837. First master, David N. Edwards, 1837-40 (left ship, replaced by F. C. Sanford), then: George Washington Gardner, 1841-45 , Benjamin C. Gardner, 1845-50, Richard C. Gibbs 1850-54 (rescued Captain John Deblois and his crew two days after the ship Ann Alexander was sunk by a whale), Richard C. Gibbs (1855-59). On Nantucket's last voyage, Richard C. Gibbs carried his wife, Almira, who kept a detailed and very interesting journal. The ship whaled off the Pacific coast of South America, and Almira Gibbs' journal includes many descriptions of South American ports and people, as well as accounts of social encounters with other whaling wives.... Mehr