Nantucket Whaler Lost in Pacific Tells Its Tale at Last - NYTimes.com

No ‘Moby-Dick’: A Real Captain, Twice Doomed

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A team of marine archaeologists found the whaler Two Brothers in 2008 while on a trip looking for other wrecks in the Pacific.

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This is an entertaining article about the events that led to the writing of the novel, "Moby- Dick"