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Owen Chase (1798-1869) was the first mate on the now famous voyage of the ship Essex, sunk by a whale in 1820 in the South Pacific. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in 1821, would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick and later was detailed by Nat Philbrick in In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. The tragic loss and resulting cannibalism made a popular tale. Image number: GPN4448
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Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was first mate of the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on November 20, 1820, after being rammed by a sperm whale. Soon after his return to Nantucket, Chase wrote an account of the shipwreck and the attempts of the crew to reach land in small boats. The book, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, was published in 1821 and would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. (From Wikipedia)

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