Charles W. Morgan
Charles W. Morgan
August 27, 2014
Voyage Complete, Whaling Ship and Historian Come Home
Following a huge welcome home early this month, the Charles W. Morgan is now back in her berth at Chubb’s Wharf at Mystic Seaport. There are no barrels of whale oil to unload this time, but instead a wealth of new information to digest.
June 26, 2014
Vineyard Schoolchildren Give High Marks to Morgan Visit
Island students went on board the whaling ship and explored its nooks and crannies. In the blubber room below decks, the children gathered to hear a Mystic Seaport educator speak about what happens after a whale is captured.
June 25, 2014
Whaleship's One-Week Visit Creates Lifetime of Memories
After a seven-day stay on Martha’s Vineyard, the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan departed from Vineyard Haven harbor Wednesday morning for the next leg of her historic voyage. A crowd gathered at West Chop as people tried to get a last look.
June 20, 2014
Last of Her Kind, Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Has Strong Ties to the Vineyard
The Charles W. Morgan came back to life this spring. The last American wooden whaling ship once again had saltwater under her 173-year-old keel. Ocean winds buffeted her new suit of sails. She has another captain and a new crew occupying bunks and climbing the rigging.
June 19, 2014
Morgan Escort Has Star Turn Too
Though she hasn’t gotten the press the Charles W. Morgan has earned, the fishing vessel Roann can claim as deep a Vineyard pedigree. She was built in 1947 for Roy. M. Campbell of Vineyard Haven. Now she is escort to the Morgan.
June 19, 2014
Emotions Swirl in Morgan's Wake as Vineyarders Rejoice in Momentous Event
All along the northern shoreline, Islanders stood poised and camera-ready to capture the historic moment Wednesday afternoon. They were eager to welcome the majestic whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan.
June 19, 2014
Still Nimble, Old Girl Proves She Is More Than Shipshape
For me, the ship came to life when she made what I will always remember as The Turn. We were at the far end of Vineyard Sound early Tuesday afternoon, sailing to the east.
June 19, 2014
Logbook of the 38th Voyage
What follows are excerpts from the Gazette’s live blog of the Morgan’s historic voyage from Newport, Rhode Island, to Vineyard Haven on Wednesday, June 18.
June 19, 2014
The Real Housewives of Martha's Vineyard
This article first appeared in the May/June issue of Martha's Vineyard Magazine.
“For a girl or a woman to embark on a long whaling voyage required great fortitude and determination,” wrote Henry Beetle Hough, co-author with Emma Mayhew Whiting of Whaling Wives, published in 1953. Sailing with her whaling-captain husband meant that a wife could avoid a separation that might last as long as five years, but life as the only woman aboard ship was, said Hough and Whiting, “a prospect of bleakness and hazard.”
June 19, 2014
Whaleship Charles W. Morgan Arrives to Warm Welcome
The Charles W. Morgan arrived at Vineyard Haven harbor to a barrage of cannonfire and boat horns while onlookers gathered to witness her arrival, some in tears. The Morgan is the last wooden whaling ship in the world.
