Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Read more on Boston.com.

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Nearly 190 years later, experts say, it's ...

The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, scientists announced they were confident ...

The ship was built in 1815 in Westport, Mass. and had hunted whales across the Atlantic Ocean, in the Caribbean and in the Gulf of Mexico for 20 years, NOAA said, adding that it was whaling ...

Retropolis Wreck of 200-year-old whaling ship may have been found in Gulf of Mexico. The ship, Industry, had been caught in a storm and abandoned by its crew before it sank in 1836 ...

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Nearly 190 years later, experts say, it ...

The discovery of a 207-year-old whaling ship, Industry, in the Gulf of Mexico is shedding light on the history of its Black and Native American crew members in the early 1800s.

The wreck of a 207-year-old whaling ship that would have been crewed by the descendants of slaves has been discovered at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The ship, a National Historic Landmark, made 37 voyages over 80 years starting in 1841 across every ocean in the world from the heyday to the waning days of whaling.

When whaling in North America hit its peak in the mid-1800s, hundreds of ships armed with gun-loaded harpoons set off on hunts in the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.