1900 Photos New Bedford MA WHALING SHIPS DISASTER ARTIC OCEAN SEPT 1871

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1900 Photos New Bedford MA WHAILING SHIPS DISASTER ARTIC OCEAN SEPT 1871
1900 Photos New Bedford MA WHAILING SHIPS DISASTER ARTIC OCEAN SEPT 1871
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This is an undual presentation, mounted on heavy card stock. 4 Gelatin silver photograph prints of a lithograph showing
The Whaling Disaster of 1871, titled Abandonment Of The Whalers In The Artic Ocean, Sept., 1871. Plates are numbered, Pl 1, Pl 2, Pl 3, & Pl 4.. Condition is as seen in the pictures, with edges trimmed.
Measuring approximately 8 1/2 by 12 1/2". Please view the scans and pics carefully.
In late June 1871, forty whaleships passed north through Bering Strait, hunting bowhead whales. By August the vessels had passed as far as Point Belcher, near Wainwright, Alaska, before a stationary high, parked over northeast Siberia, reversed the normal wind pattern and pushed the pack ice toward the Alaskan coast. Seven ships were able to escape to the south, but 33 others were trapped. Within two weeks the pack had tightened around the vessels, crushing three ships - Comet on September 2, Roman on September 7, and Awashonks on September 8. The crews were divided among the rest of the vessels. The remaining vessels were spread out in a long line, some 60 miles (97 km) south of Point Franklin. On September 12 the masters met aboard Champion and agreed that, weather permitting, they would evacuate within the next few days. Each master was to return to their ship and prepare whaleboats lightened of gear so that they could be slid across the ice between the open-water. The ships were strung-out over some 50 miles at this time, in open water in groups of three to five, separated by ice, but within sight of other ships. The signal of abandonment was to strike the American flag. On the morning of September 14 scout boats from the John Wells and Eugenia returned with the news of the rescue ships waiting to the south . After each the ships struck their flag, the 1,219 people aboard the ships evacuated in small whaleboats with a three-month supply of provisions, crossed 70 miles (110 km) of ocean and ice, and were eventually brought to safety by the seven ships which had escaped the ice to the south. Amazingly, there were no casualties. It was widely reported and accepted that a single crew member stayed on the Massachusetts through that winter, but his identify has been lost to history. Info from Wikipedia.
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