Word: whaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a few years at his father's forge. Preserved Fish III shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings...
...John Franklin, who had been the first to trace the MacKenzie and Coppermine Rivers some 25 years before, sailed for the arctic with 129 men in the ships Erebus and Terror. The party was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which...
...whaling town. There is a scene in which the stump of his bitten leg is seared with a hot iron and a closeup of him finally cutting his vengeance out of the whale that took the leg. Other great shots: the shanghaied crew of murderers; enlarged projections of the whaler under full sail in a choppy sea, wild-eyed Ahab battling a storm. The shot of the amputation was included, somewhat differently, in The Sea Beast, but the whole picture is new, entirely reconstructed and rephotographed...
...Lever Bros., English soap makers (Lux, Lifebuoy), control the company which owns the English whaler now at the ice pack...