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Two Brothers Found?In 2008, 185 years after the Massachusetts whaling ship Two Brothers came to rest on a Hawaiian reef, its rusty anchor is measured by divers.Two Brothers was captained by George Pollard, Jr., whose only other whaling ship, the Essex, sank in 1820 after being rammed by a sperm whale—an incident that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Read the full story: "Rare 1823 Wreck Found—Captain Linked to 'Moby-Dick,' Cannibalism."
Photograph courtesy Tane Casserley, NOAA

Pictures: 1823 Whaling Shipwreck Found in Hawaii

Nearly two centuries after it sank off a remote Hawaiian atoll, an 1800s whaling vessel that was a sister ship to the Essex, of Moby-Dick fame, has been rediscovered, blubber pots and all.

February 11, 2011