Nantucket Sleighride (album)
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Nantucket Sleighride is the second studio album by American hard rock band Mountain, released in January 1971 by Windfall Records in the US and by Island in the UK. It reached number 16 on the Billboa
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Essex (whaleship)
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Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Polla
Nantucket Sleighride (album)
…Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin)," a song about a young seaman who was shot and eaten by his shipmates after their ship, the Nantucket whaler Essex, was sunk by a sperm whale. The album also features the song "The Animal Trainer and the Toad," their second and final song to make it onto the charts…
A whale striking Essex on November 20, 1820, depicted in a sketch by Thomas Nickerson
Location of Essex's sinking
Owen Chase in later life
Thomas Nickerson in the 1870s