When whales were plentiful, work went on at the station around the clock, seven days a week ... in the ongoing battle to end commercial whaling. The old time whaling reached a peak around 1845 ...

A 21-year-old Herman Melville signs aboard the whaler Acushnet out of Fairhaven. He will remain at sea for more than three years. During a "gam" with the whaling vessel Lima in the South ...

I bought it the first time I went down to South Georgia — to work as an electrician for Christian Salvesen, Britain's biggest whaling company. I was employed first at Leith Harbour on South ...