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Whaling in Massachusetts (Images of America)

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The preferred novel Moby-Dick first spurred old and young alike to romanticize the whaling industry. Writer Herman Melville wrote his story in line with the exploits of the Essex whaleship, and he documented his travels aboard the Acushnet, which departed from a Massachusetts whaling port. Within the early 1700s, Massachusetts residents caught whales from the shore before embarking on offshore voyages for a number of weeks. Later, these trips would extend over many years, bringing home a standard of 1,500 barrels of whale oil and thousands of pounds of whalebone Within the 1800s. New Bedford and Nantucket were the founding towns for the whaling industry, but little known are the other Massachusetts towns that sent out whalers, built the ships, and outfitted them. Essex, Mattapoisett, and Falmouth were shipbuilding communities; Fairhaven started as a whaling town but quickly took to outfitting whalers; Gloucester made the yellow slickers that were rubbed with sperm whale oil to water-resistant them; and Provincetown and Boston were a few of the many ports that sent out whaling ships.

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