Mar 05 2007
Ship that inspired Melville’s “Moby Dick” was built in Amesbury
It has recently been discovered that the whaleship Essex, who’s misadventure and destruction by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick, was built in Amesbury, Mass. According to a recent article in the Newburyport Daily News, Steve Klomps, the Peabody Essex Museum‘s director of finance and a homeowner [...]
