Wikiplacemarks.com  
 



Find us on Google+

George Pollard Former Home

View on map:41.284810°N 70.100720°W

Comments

At the corner of Centre St. and Broad St.the red-shingled house where Pollard lived became a gift shop. Pollard commanded the Essex that was rammed by a whale and sunk. He spent 93 days at sea having to eat some of his mates.

Description


Essex (whaleship)

The Essex was an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. The ship, captained by George Pollard, Jr., was widely known for being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820 – an incident that served as inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick.

References

All text is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Average user rating: Not rated

Click on a star to rate
 

Do you have a form that you would like to turn into an application?

Please share your ideas with us.

Contact us...