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This is a replica of Mocha Dick, the most famous whale in history, a 70-foot sperm whale that famously battled around 100 whaling ships during its lifetime in the 19th century. It sank around 20 of them and evaded capture for three decades.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-whale-inspired-moby-dick-180965282/
“Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?”
This quotation from Moby-Dick may well have been asked by real captains about a different whale–one that inspired the author of that now-famous book. Although Moby-Dick didn’t get much attention while its author Herman Melville was alive, the book–first published on this day in 1851–has gone down in history as a classic. (If you want to get a sense of it but don’t have the time to check out the entire 700-page tome, check out this Twitter account.) But the situation was reversed for the white whale's namesake: Many people had heard of Mocha Dick, although today he’s largely forgotten.
Mocha Dick, named after the island of Mocha in Chile, near where he was first spotted, was “one of the largest, most powerful sperm whales of 19th-century lore,” according to the Chronicle Books blog. He reportedly destroyed more than 20 whaling ships and escaped another 80, writes Daven Hiskey for Today I Found Out. The huge whale became famous for escaping ships over the next 28 years before he was at last killed by whalers in a dramatic encounter that was publicized by writer Jeremiah N. Reynolds in an 1839 account in The Knickerbocker.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-whale-inspired-moby-dick-180965282/
“Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?”
This quotation from Moby-Dick may well have been asked by real captains about a different whale–one that inspired the author of that now-famous book. Although Moby-Dick didn’t get much attention while its author Herman Melville was alive, the book–first published on this day in 1851–has gone down in history as a classic. (If you want to get a sense of it but don’t have the time to check out the entire 700-page tome, check out this Twitter account.) But the situation was reversed for the white whale's namesake: Many people had heard of Mocha Dick, although today he’s largely forgotten.
Mocha Dick, named after the island of Mocha in Chile, near where he was first spotted, was “one of the largest, most powerful sperm whales of 19th-century lore,” according to the Chronicle Books blog. He reportedly destroyed more than 20 whaling ships and escaped another 80, writes Daven Hiskey for Today I Found Out. The huge whale became famous for escaping ships over the next 28 years before he was at last killed by whalers in a dramatic encounter that was publicized by writer Jeremiah N. Reynolds in an 1839 account in The Knickerbocker.
