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ISBN-10: 1434306070
ISBN-13: 9781434306074
Edition: 2007
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"We took three bowheads in a month's time and each one equaled two of our sperm." Excitement controlled Captain's voice and he banged his fist on the table to release it. "This old chart of my grandfather's shows thirty-two marks made over a ten-year period. Twas a long time ago, but whales! Aaron, whales!" You'll sail with Aaron and his uncle, Captain Aaron Samuelson, on a fictionalized whaler in 1855 when a whaling ship was registered in the state of New Jersey.This is a coming of age story about a teenage boy, newly orphaned, and the uncle he never knew aboard a whaler in 1855. Many young men make up the crew of the Josephine; some of them were able-bodied seamen, some had had… previous experience aboard a sailing ship, and nine were greenhorns. You'll experience the hard work, difficult living conditions, high spirits, training and discipline of these young men along with the dangers, thrill of the kill, and unusual adventures on an eight-month search from New Jersey to Greenland for whales.Sag Harbor on Long Island, New York; Gloucester, Boston, and New Bedford in Massachusetts; and dozens of towns and cities in New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine were once the homeports to hundreds of whaling ships. Most of the catastrophes and day to day incidents in this book happened at some time, somewhere, and the activities, food, clothing, books, songs, schools, discipline, treatments for sick or injured people, medicine, care of orphans, and methods of whaling were in use during the middle of the 1800's.Sperm and other whales frequently beached themselves on the outer banks of New Jersey in the 1600's and 1700's. When men took to boats, and then bigger an bigger boats, they decimated the schools(pods) of whales migrating along the shores all the way to Canada.During this era most whaling ships traveled for months around dangerous Cape Horn at the bottom of South America to the South Seas, Japan, the Philippines, Bering Strait and the Arctic in search of new whaling grounds. They shared the location with other whalers until each bay was shore to shore ships, and the whales were almost extinct. In 1859 the first productive oil well in nearby Pennsylvania and the hundreds of sister wells that followed, providing a cheaper and less dangerous source of oil, shut down this carnage. With the industrial revolution in full swing and the pay in a factory at least three times that of a seaman, most young men traded their hankering for adventure for the safety of a factory job.In recent years we have seen whales cavorting off the beach near Sandy Hook Lighthouse and off Long Beach Island in New Jersey. A couple of years ago an article in the newspaper said that a Right whale had been spotted in the ocean off Sandy Hook. In the forties my father found a hunk of ambergris floating in the water off Sandy Hook.The name Samuelson was chosen because Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo of Atlantic Highlands, NJ departed from New York City on June 6, 1896 and rowed for eighteen hours a day, in an eighteen-foot rowboat, across the Atlantic Ocean. They arrived in Le Harve, France on August 7, 1896.