in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. In 1763, six Coffin men were captains of Nantucket ships...
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after its heyday as a whaling center. Almost all notable Americans with roots in Nantucket are descended from Tristram Coffin, although Benjamin Franklin...
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James Coffin may refer to: James Coffin, member of the Coffin whaling family James Henry Coffin (1806–1873), American mathematician and meteorologist...
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in Massachusetts List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts Coffin (whaling family) "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic...
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Pacific Ocean. By marriage, they were related to the Coffins, another Nantucket whaling family. The aged and eccentric farmer Giles Corey, charged with...
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and Zenas Coffin, operated a Nantucket based whaling firm during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries called Micajah Coffin and Sons. Their...
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of the other whaling families of the islands, including the Mayhew, Athearn, Coffin, Look, Luce, and Pease families. The Cleveland families of Martha's...
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Frederick G., and Henry. Coffin, with both his father, Micajah Coffin, and his brother, Gilbert Coffin, operated a Nantucket-based whaling firm during the late...
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Captain Universe Robert Coffin, adventurer and ship captain in the novel Maori by Alan Dean Foster Coffin (whaling family) Coffin v. United States This...
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with the surname Coffin or Coffyn Coffin (whaling family), a historic group of Nantucket whalers The Coffin, a 2008 Thai horror film Coffin (film), a 2011...
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Province of Massachusetts Bay to a whaling family; his parents were Peleg and Elizabeth (Hussey) Coffin. Coffin's father was lost at sea a month after...
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whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...
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Nantucket (section Whaling industry)
Retrieved September 20, 2017. Gardner, Will (1949). The Coffin Saga. Nantucket Island, Massachusetts: Whaling Museum Publications. Karttunen, Frances Ruley (2005)...
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advent of the whaling trade. Unusual for the time, she was a prominent leader in civic and religious matters. She had ten children and her family members were...
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thirteen-year period. A visit was made to Anna Coffin and Lucretia Coffin Mott of the Coffin whaling family, where Coggeshall discussed Inward light with...
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Frank Dillane (section Early life and family)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). He also appeared as Henry Coffin in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015). Dillane plays a recurring role...
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Queequeg (section Queequeg's coffin)
Queequeg in Chapter Four and they become unlikely friends. Once aboard the whaling ship the Pequod, Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck....
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Mayhew Folger (category American people in whaling)
Massachusetts, the second child of William Folger and Ruth Coffin. Mayhew was a member of the Folger whaling family of Nantucket, who were prominent Quakers. He was...
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William Lanne (category Australian people in whaling)
next day at St David's Church. It was organised by his whaling company employer who had his coffin draped in a possum-skin rug with spears placed on top...
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Moby-Dick (category Whaling in the United States)
describe aspects of the whaling business. Although a successful earlier novel about Nantucket whalers had been written, Miriam Coffin or The Whale-Fisherman...
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In the Heart of the Sea (film) (category Films about whaling)
captain is George Pollard, an inexperienced mariner from an established whaling family who envies Chase's skill and popularity. Chase and Pollard clash, leading...
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Owen Chase (category American people in whaling)
Chase, a farmer. He was one of five surviving brothers, all of whom became whaling captains. In June 1817, on what was probably his second or third voyage...
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Ishmael (Moby-Dick) (section Family)
coffin bobs up to the surface, and Ishmael keeps himself afloat on it until another whaling ship, the Rachel, arrives to rescue him. The only family Ishmael...
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and second mates, respectively. They all belonged to the Cleaveland whaling family, based in Nantucket, which shares the origin of its name with that of...
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back to Saint Christopher for trial. After a whale rammed and sank the whaling ship Essex of Nantucket on 20 November 1820, the survivors were left floating...
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Essex (whaleship) (category Whaling ships)
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...
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in the New England town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to find work on a whaling ship. Due to a shortage of local lodgings, he is forced to share his room...
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Society which was established in 1895 for girls. Coffin reopened the school during a period when the whaling industry, which had been the economic backbone...
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New Island (category Whaling stations)
Two place names on or near the island, Coffin's Harbour and Coffin's Island, commemorate the Coffin family of Nantucket. Nearby Quaker, Barclay, Fox...
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in 1823 and named it "Enderby's Island" after the London whaling house. However, when Coffin described his discoveries to Arrowsmith and other geographers...
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