Jennifer Sellitti and her team of hobbyist shipwreck hunters came up big last summer, finding the wreckage of an 1850s French ...

On February 23, 1821, three months after the sperm whale sank the ship, the Dauphin, another Nantucket whaling vessel, sighted a small boat filled with sun-bleached bones with the emaciated ...

A drawing from the journal kept by Captain Reuben Russell of the Nantucket whaling ship Susan depicts him atop the flukes of a right whale. Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association The ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned in ...

The New England Aquarium is drawing attention to the presence of more than 75 North Atlantic right whales sighted in the ...