Vineyard Haven to New Bedford: June 25

On June 25, 2014 the Charles W. Morgan sailed from Vineyard Haven to New Bedford.

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Marine Quarterly article by Lesley Walker

Lesley Walker: How to Go a-Whaling

"There is no better whaling port than New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here I found myself stranded between ships, pockets empty. Before I knew it, I had signed a paper...and it was too late to try swimming ashore."

Entering New Bedford video

Video: Sailing to New Bedford

Video of the sail from Vineyard Haven and the Morgan's return to New Bedford.

"Asked, when he was 79, if he had had enough of the whaling life after his 13 months at sea, my great-uncle said that he had. But he quickly qualified that in the next breath. “Oh, I don’t say I’d never go again. I’d go now, if they’d let me..."

Rob Burbank: A 21st-century sail on a 19th-century whaling ship

Connecting the stories of his whaler great-uncle to his own experience on the Morgan.

Entering New Bedford

News: A New Bedford Homecoming

Mystic Seaport sailed the whaleship Charles W. Morgan to a celebratory homecoming at her original homeport of New Bedford on Wednesday, June 25.

Vanessa Hodgkinson: Artist Breaches Gender Divide

Very little is known about the women who joined the crews of ships, who had to dress and masquerade as men in order to do so.

Lesley Walker Signals Quarterly cover

Lesley Walker: In the Wake of A Whaleship

Her great-great-grandparents depended on New Bedford whalers to survive on a Pacific island. On the 38th Voyage she comes to New Bedford.

Log: June 25, 1868.

Looking to recruit whalemen....

Robert Wallace: Steering Out of the Haven

“What is there to steering a ship when it is being towed by a tug that determines its course?” Much more than you might think.