Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

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CONTENTS Preface Xl Chapter One: Owen Chase 3 Chapter Two: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, ofNantucket, by Owen Chase 13 Chapter Three: Ne Cede Malis 77 Chapter Four: Next Lowering 119 Owen Chase after the Essex George Pollard,Jr. The Other Survivors Chapter Five: Telling the Story 155 The Authorship and Publication of Owen Chase's Narrative Herman Melville Accounts and Borrowings Appendices A: Herman Melville's Annotations and Markings in His Copy of Owen Chase's Narrative 184 B: The Story of the Essex Shipwreck Presented in Captain Pollard's Interview with George Bennet 211 C: Thomas Chapple's Account of the Loss of the Essex 217 D: March 7, 1821, Letter of Commodore Ridgely to the Secretary ofthe Navy 225 E: The"Paddack Letter" on the Rescue of Captain Pollard and Charles Ramsdell 231 viii CONTENTS F: Report of the Essex Shipwreck and Rescue in the Sydney Gazette, June 9,1821 237 G: Table of Islands from Bowditch's Navigator 243 H: Chase Genealogy 247 Notes 253 Index 267 ILL USTRATIONS Owen Chase By permission of Isabelle and Margaret Tice; reproduced by the Peter Foulger Museum from a photograph in its collection frontispiece Title page of the first edition of Owen Chase's Narrative By permission of the Princeton University Library 15 Map of the Essex adventure 25 Commodore Charles Goodwin Ridgely By permission of Mary Kent Norton; photographed courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library 97 U.S.S. Constellation around the time of Owen Chase's rescue Courtesy of the Naval Photographic Center, Naval District, Washington, D.C. 98 Capt. Thomas Raine By permission of Maxwell Raine 107 Lydia Chase Tice, daughter of Owen Chase, and her husband, Capt. William Harvey Tice By permission of Isabelle and Margaret Tice 137 Capt. Joseph Chase By permission of Isabelle Chase Burnett 141 Herman Melville's annotations of Owen Chase's Narrative By permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. 185-204 Owen Chase's descent from William Chase 248-249 Owen Chase's marriages and children 250-251 ...