In response, the village of Angoon demanded 200 blankets from the private company as payment for the death, along with “seizing the whaling-boats with their equipment, and holding two of the ...

In 1901, the Canadian mariner John Voss set sail from British Columbia in a modified dugout canoe. He was headed for Australia, seeking adventure—and the world record for smallest vessel to ...

Inside the school wood shop here, just past a knot of student canoes crafted from cedar,... Tribe's whalers await chance to hunt again Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

“The tradition is to burn a canoe when something like this happens,” Makah Tribal Chairman Ben Johnson said. “We won’t with this one because it’s a whaling canoe.” The 32-foot canoe has a history.

Federal scientists discovered the battered remnants of two whaling ships near Wainwright in the Chukchi Sea this fall. The ships are believed to be from 1871 when 33 ships were trapped by sea ice.

Most of the crew of a whaling ship sets out in smaller boats to pursue their prey. Only four crew members are left behind, plus their tyrannical, often violent captain. When the crew returns from ...

A fleet of five whaling boats departed the northern port of Kushiro on Monday. A separate deep-water fleet was scheduled to leave from the southern port of Shimonoseki the same day.

Whales can learn about danger and can warn each other, according to a study of how they dodged whaling ships in the 19th century. ... to either flee or to attack the whaler's boats.

The whaling industry, which flourished in the 1800s, gave Black seamen the chance to not only make a living but also thrive during an era when it was dangerous just to have dark skin.