sinking of the whaleship Essex

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The sinking of the whaleship Essex was an 1820 maritime disaster in which a Nantucket whaling ship was rammed by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean, inspiring Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."

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