The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Whaler

Sea Terms

A vessel employed in the whale fishery.

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2026 Editor's Note: One whaler outlived them all: the Charles W. Morgan (1841), preserved at Mystic Seaport — and restored to sail again in 2014, the last wooden whaleship on earth. (Ed: BR 2026-06-15)

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