‘No place in the world like Westport Point’
[Westport Point looking north from the collection of the WHS – Click for larger image.] Westport Point, offered one of […]
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A Westport Man Goes Whaling – and writes many letters home
“…I got baptized handsome in the following manner without ceremony. We raised whales and lowered away and the boat that […]
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Voyage of the Mexico and What Happened at Home
Young Albert was but a lad of 17 when he left Westport on the Mexico on April 12, 1844. He […]
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The Union – first and nearly last
[Crew list for 1805 whaling voyage courtesy of NBWM] The first officially recorded whaling voyage from Westport Point is that […]
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A Westport Woman goes Whaling
Abbie Maria Dexter Hicks went whaling in 1873. We know this because she kept a diary from June 23, 1873 […]
