Whaling ship

The Two Brothers Whaling Ship graphic documents the recent discovery of this whaling vessel. The visual has multiple purposes: show what it looked like, locate where the shipwreck was found, document what it did, and how it did it. I've drawn a lot of ships here. This was a daily assignment that turned out well.

Cross-section of an early 19th-century whaler

Life on a nineteenth-century whaler was thrilling, tedious, and often disgusting.

Bringing the case aboard - Whales and whaling in Antarctica pictures

GUIDED BY MY ONGOING obsession with the novel Moby-Dick, I embark upon a pilgrimage to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Between 1990 and 1962, the same number of sperm whales had been killed by humans as had been taken during 18th and 19th centuries, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle.

For the first time in more than 140 years, humans have laid eyes on doomed ships from the infamous Whaling Disaster of 1871. Here are photos of the shipwrecks that got stuck in Alaskan pack ice.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a work of a different form, a rarer one: the anatomy. It’s an anatomy of two things – whales and Ahab’s diligence. The former is explored mostly biologically as a literal…

Clan an Craite is the second most powerful clan in Skellige[1] and the most important ally of Clan Tuirseach, the longtime holders of the throne. Its jarls reign over the northern half of Ard Skellig from Kaer Trolde citadel.[2] Legend has it that the keep was single-handedly carved out of a large boulder by Grymmdjarr, son of Hemdall and Heulyn famed for his strength, who then started the clan.[3] Their colors are red and black, which they carry on their shields, tartans, and sails along…