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[Scuffling]

That's Moby Dick!
Has anything  been made of M&D/MD? I don't know if this account had been
mentioned before on the P-List, but:

November 20, 1820: Whaling ship "Essex" attacked and destroyed by a whale

The whaling ship "Essex" sailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts to hunt
for whales in the South Pacific.  On November 20, 1820, the prey
turned hunter and the ship was attacked by an enraged whale, which
rammed the ship twice and destroyed it.  The crewmen set off in three
open boats, hoping to reach the west coast of South America, over
2,000 miles away.  Only eight of the twenty sailors from the Essex
survived the desperate voyage, one of which published an account of
the Essex tragedy.  That account was the basis for the final chapter
of Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick", in which a whaling ship is
rammed and sunk by a White Wale.

An account of the whale's attack on the Essex:
http://ucs.orst.edu/~gildenj/coffin/owencoffin.html

AsB4,

Henry Mu