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  • Divers find shipwreck of doomed sailor who inspired classic tale of Moby Dick off coast of Hawaii

    02/11/2011 11:50:12 AM PST · by Stoat · 39 replies · 2+ views
    UK Daily Mail / various ^ | February 11, 2011
    Wreck of the The Two Brothers found 600 miles northwest of Honolulu Divers have found the shipwrecked vessel of a doomed sailor who inspired the classic American tale Moby Dick off the coast of Hawaii.When, in 1820, a fierce sperm whale sank George Pollard's first whaling ship — Essex — it captured the imagination of author Herman Melville, who published the book in 1851.And, just three years after his first ship sank, a second whaler captained by Pollard, 30, struck a coral reef during a night storm and sank in shallow water.Marine archaeologists scouring remote atolls 600 miles northwest...