One of the Charles W. Morgan's whaling boats, featuring models of crewmembers with oars and harpoons.

Charles W. Morgan was a whaling ship during the 1800s. Ships of this type usually harvested the blubber of whales for the use of whale oil that was commonly used in lamps during the time period. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 2926 KB) Summary A whaling boat from the , on display the Powerhouse Museum, photographed by User:DONeil. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1728x2304, 2926 KB) Summary A whaling boat from the , on display the Powerhouse Museum, photographed by User:DONeil. ... The crew of the oceanographic research vessel Princesse Alice, of Albert Grimaldi (later Prince Albert I of Monaco) pose while flensing a catch Whaling is the hunting and killing of whales. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... Blubber is a thick layer of insulating fat found under the skin of cetaceans and various other animals living in extremely cold climates (seals, walruses). ... Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ...

History

In the 1840s, a Quaker whaling merchant named Charles W. Morgan ordered a whaleship from the shipbuilders of Jethro & Zachariah Hillman of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... Nickname: The Whaling City Motto: Official website: www. ...

The hull and deck of Morgan reflected the industry for which she was built to serve. A typical whaleship has three funtions:

1. to serve as a mother ship to a fleet of small whaleboats, which are stored on the davits when not in use,
2. to serve as a factory and a refinery ship with tryworks for extracting oil from the whale blubber,
3. to serve as oil tankers.

Morgan's maiden voyage began on September 6, 1841. She sailed around Cape Horn and cruised the Pacific Ocean. On Morgan's three year and four month voyage, she came home with 2,400 barrels of whale oil and 10,000 lbs of whalebone, known as baleen, which was worth around USD$56,000. A trywork, located aft of the fore-mast, is the most distinguishing feature of a whaling ship. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... take you to calendar). ... Cape Horn from the South, January 2003 Cape Horn is often said to be the southernmost point of South America. ... Baleen hair is attached to the baleen plate Baleen (also called whalebone) is a substance made of keratin and is therefore stiff but somewhat elastic. ...

Later service

In her 80 years of service, she would make 37 voyages ranging from nine months to five years. Charles W. Morgan, in total, brought home 54,483 barrels of whale oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone. She also sailed in the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans surviving ice & snow storms, and her crew survived a cannibal attack in the South Pacific. Between 1888 and 1904 she was based in San Francisco. Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as described by Hans Staden. ... For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...

Morgan had more than 1,000 whalemen of all races and natonalities in her lifetime. Her crew included not only Americans, but sailors from Cape Verde, New Zealand, the Seychelles, Guadeloupe, and Norfolk Island. The ship's crew averaged around 33 men per voyage. As with other whaleships in the 1800s, Morgan oftentimes was home to the captain's family.

Charles W. Morgan was used in 3 movies; the 1916 movie Miss Petticoats, the 1922 Down to the Sea in Ships, and in the 1930s in Java Head. Down to the Sea in Ships is a 1923 silent movie about a devout Quaker captain of a fleet of whaling ships, William W. Morgan (William Walcott). ...

The Charles W. Morgan as she appears today, moored at Mystic Seaport, CT.

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Retirement

The whaling days came to an end with the perfection of refining petroleum. Morgan was under the care of Whaling Enshrined, Inc. until 1941, when she was transferred to Mystic Seaport, where she still stands to this day. Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and elaion – oil or Latin oleum – oil ), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Mystic Seaport is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut. ...

External links

• Charles W. Morgan
• Deck prisms on the Charles W. Morgan