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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.

Experts say it’s still the only whaler known to have gone down in the Gulf of Mexico, where the threat of enslavement at Southern ports posed a risk for Black and mixed-race men who often were part of whaling crews.

About 15 years before Moby Dick was introduced by Herman Melville, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of river Mississippi.

The ship from Massachusetts went down near the mouth of the Mississippi River around 1836, and has been missing for over 190 years.

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the Mississippi River.

The ship from Massachusetts went down near the mouth of the Mississippi River around 1836, and has been missing for over 190 years.

Researchers checking out odd shapes during undersea scanning work on the sandy ocean floor believe they’ve finally found the shipwreck of a whaling ship from...

Researchers say they've found what's believed to be the wreck of the only whaling ship known to sink in the Gulf of Mexico

Researchers checking out odd shapes during undersea scanning work on the sandy ocean floor believe they’ve finally found the shipwreck of a whaling ship from...

A shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico is identified and the mystery of its multiracial crew’s fate unraveled.