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Matthew Bullard: Homeward Bound

A Morgan descendant reflects on coming home to New Bedford aboard the Charles W. Morgan.

Classic Boat article Dec 2014

Lesley Walker: Having a Whale of a Time

"I won't forget the exhilaration of seeing her keel slice through the green water."

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."

"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.

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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.

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.

Viewing Moby-Dick through the Lens of the Charles W. Morgan

Peter Norberg: Viewing Moby-Dick through the Lens of the Charles W. Morgan

"When I described my project to the other eight voyagers onboard, I was surprised to learn that five of them had brought along their personal copies of Moby-Dick."

“Native boys of King Island, Dancing, Behring Sea,” Group of sailors, native children and women on board the Thetis [circa 1899-1916].

Paul Krejci: Music Aboard the Charles W. Morgan and other 19th-Century Whaling Ships, Then and Now

An ethnomusicologist explores the changing roles of music on board whalers.

A Chance Encounter

A Chance Encounter

It’s not uncommon for Beloit alumni to come across each other in unexpected places.

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Rachel Thomas-Shapiro: A Summer of Exploration

After being a deckhand aboard the Morgan and an Educator-at-Sea aboard the Nautilus, a science teacher brings stories of her historic summer back to Williams.