Historic whaling ship launched in Connecticut. after $7M overhaul

Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 07:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

It survived countless storms and Confederate raids during the Civil War while taking crews across unchartered oceans in search of whales whose oil lit the world.  The Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaling ship and America's oldest merchant ship, is hi …

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