Whaleship · Five Small Boats and a Three-Year Voyage · Heritage Holiday Ornament
Whaleship · Five Small Boats and a Three-Year Voyage · Heritage Holiday Ornament
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Whaleship. Three masts, sails furled, riding at anchor with five small boats slung along her side and a thin red stripe at the waterline. The big ship just carried them; the real hunting happened from the whaleboats.
By the 1840s the American whaling fleet counted hundreds of ships sailing out of New England ports, New Bedford above all, on voyages that lasted three or four years. A whaling ship rounded Cape Horn for the Pacific grounds and stayed out until the hold was full of oil for a country that had not yet found petroleum. When a whale was sighted the whaleboats went over the side, six men to a boat, and rowed after it.
It was hard, dangerous, badly paid work, much of it done by young men a long way from home, and it built some of the richest towns in America. Herman Melville shipped out on a whaler in 1841 and came back with a book. Most of the men who went never wrote anything down.
Our own line drawing, set in crystal so every line of rigging holds under the lights, with the red waterline as the one color. Three inches across, five boats.
For maritime museums, tall ship volunteers, ship model builders, descendants of whaling families, and everyone drawn to old sailing ships. Profits go to hunger relief.
Faceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads from across the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.
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