Somebody asked about the significance of the Essex: One of my ancestors was aboard that ship.

Somebody asked about the significance of the Essex:  One of my ancestors was aboard that ship. The Essex went down when rammed by a whale and was the stimulus for Moby Dick. I trying to stop the Leviathan that is coming, I feel like Captain Ahab. My ancestor, by the way, survived the Wreck of the Essex and died in a hurricane alter on.

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  1. JoJo StrattonOctober 30, 2013 at 5:56 AM

    thank you - here is an interesting piece about the Essex - need to look to see if this has been made yet - http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/08/bbc-whaling-drama-moby-dick

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  2. JoJo StrattonOctober 30, 2013 at 5:57 AM

    Oh - I believe it sunk in 1820 - so just throwing that out there so the date is around :)

    and edit adding the link to the wikipedia, again just so all contained in one place :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)

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  3. Joshua “Z.” SallosOctober 30, 2013 at 7:40 AM

    Edgar Allan Wright , the man of mystery~ Knower of young Misty Hannah, professor to Devra Bogdonovitch, keeper of secrets, wearer of names, and now deluder of pseudonyms.

    Clearly the ancestor of which you refer is Mr. William Wright, whom' survived the sperm whale's strike and later passed in the treacherous winds of a hurricane.

    Am I to believe Mr. Wright is in your family tree? Or is there something more hiding in this lore?

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  4. Hugo NevesOctober 30, 2013 at 2:01 PM

    JoJo Stratton  the other reference to Leviathan might be from Herman Melville himself

    " Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs"

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