{"id":630,"date":"2012-02-27T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=630"},"modified":"2022-07-02T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T21:46:29","slug":"nickerson-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/n\/nickerson-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickerson, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Thomas<\/a>by Nathaniel Philbrick <\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n

NICKERSON, THOMAS (1805-1883). At fifteen years old, Thomas Nickerson was the youngest member of the crew of the Nantucket whale-ship Essex <\/em>when she was rammed and sunk by a whale in the Pacific Ocean, 20 November 1820. In 1876, fifty-five years after the appearance of first mate Owen Chase’s account of the disaster, Nickerson, then the proprietor of a boardinghouse on Nantucket, sent his own narrative of the Essex<\/em> to the professional writer Leon Lewis, then living in Penn Yan, New York. For reasons unknown, Lewis never edited the account, eventually lending Nickerson’s notebook to a neighbor, who died with it in his possession. Not until 1980 did the narrative come to the attention of Nantucket whaling expert Edouard Stackpole, who confirmed that it was a previously unpublished account of the Essex<\/em>. In 1984 the Nantucket Historical Association published an edition of Nickerson’s narrative edited by Helen Winslow Chase and Edouard Stackpole. An unabridged edition of the narrative is included in The Loss of the Ship<\/em> Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts,<\/em> edited by Thomas Philbrick and Nathaniel Philbrick (2000). Nathaniel Philbrick draws heavily on Nickerson’s narrative in his book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship<\/em> Essex. (2000).<\/p>\n

The Loss of the Ship<\/em> Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts <\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n

Archive.org<\/a>
\nGoogle Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Account of the Sinking of the Whaleship Essex,” (manuscript, 1876)<\/p>\n

Nantucket Historical Association\/Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Further Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Dowling, David. Surviving the Essex:<\/a> The Afterlive of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck. <\/em>Hanover: University Press of New England, 2016.<\/p>\n

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea:<\/a> The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. <\/em>New York: Viking, 2000.<\/p>\n

Nantucket Historical Society, “Guide to the Collection of Thomas Nickerson Material,”<\/a> nha.org.  <\/p>\n

Keywords: male, white, Moby-Dick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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