The Charles W. Morgan

The World's Last Wooden Whaleship

As America’s oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, the Charles W. Morgan has a complex story to tell.

Elaborating on Mystic Seaport Museum’s earlier volumes on the Charles W. Morgan's history, this new book offers an expanded account, chronicling the ship'sconstruction and launch in 1841 through its 38th Voyage in 2014—the first time the Morgan had been sailed in more than ninety years—and its continuing role today as an historic icon and the museum’s flagship vessel. Chapters paint a picture of how whaling developed in Europe and the ways New England colonists adopted it as a profitable venture, and then, through the ship’s own story, proceed to sketch the evolution of America’s relationship with nature—and the whale, specifically—and with the many peoples of the world who were encountered by, or served aboard, a whaleship.

This is the story of a National Historic Landmark—one that reflects our changing relationship with the natural world and with the diverse populations of the globe through two centuries of American history.

Contributor: (With), Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (Foreword by)

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