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• Position: Captain George Pollard Jr. - Literature - Brief article

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The story goes on for Captain George Pollard Jr., who inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick and its main character, Captain Ahab. One hundred fifty years after the book's publication, archaeologists have found remains of the Two Brothers, Pollard's whaling ship that sank in 1823 after hitting a reef on an island 600 miles northwest of Honolulu. Whaling lances, anchors, and cauldrons in which whale blubber was boiled down into valuable oil were among the 80 relics found. The discovery is likely the first of a Nantucket whaler, one of many that set sail during the early 19th century, when the...