Warning: this article discusses violence and cannibalism. Ron Howard's 2015 film In the Heart of the Sea is a gripping drama that tells the story of the whaling ship Essex and its crew's fight for ...

A whale attacks a boat in Frank Goodrich's 1858 novel "Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time". Public domain ...

Though it may seem modern, whales have been sinking boats since at least the 1800's. In 1820, a sperm whale sank a whaling boat. The lifeboats were later attacked by what may have been orcas. This ...

Chase, Owen Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex of Nantucket which was attacked & finally destroyed by a large spermaceti-whale in the Pacific ocean .