![]() ![]() After one voyage in the merchant service, he quit the sea and worked as. The wrack of the Two Brothers was found in 2008. The wreck of the Two Brothers ended Pollards whaling days. He gave up his career, made only one more trip with a merchant vessel and then became a night watchman on Nantucket, until he died in 1870. Pollard’s reputation was already tarnished because of the cannibalism that had set in after the Essex incident and the fact that Pollard’s mental health was not the best, which the Two Brothers incident may have reinforced. The next morning they were rescued by Martha. Captain Pollard did not want to abandon ship, but his crew pleaded with him, and they clung to small boats through the night. ![]() Captain Pollard, the man who had almost starved to death only the year before. Soon the Two Brothers ran aground and sank on a reef near French Frigate Shoals. GEORGE POLLARD TOOK to his second command with optimism that was. Both ships tried to stay within sight of each other, but lost each other during the night. His previous ship, the Essex, had been rammed by a whale and also sank, providing the narrative for the. On the 11th of the month she was caught in a storm together with the Martha, another whaler. Captain George Pollard was the skipper when the ship hit a coral reef and sank in 1823. Two Brothers illustration, by James Abundis ![]() She set sail for the Pacific in November 1821, where she remained until February 1823. The captain of the Essex, George Pollard Jr., returned home to Nantucket, Massachusetts, but after a second whaler under his command, the Two Brothers, struck a coral reef, he was branded as. Blake ( x)Īfter recovering, he actually became captain of a ship again, of the previously named Two Brothers, he was joined by Thomas NickersonĪnd now boatswain. The whaleship “Essex” leaves Nantucket, August 12th, 1819, by A.D. They were transferred to Two Brothers another whaler which was heading to Valparaíso, Chile. Pollard were in poor mental health (dissociative) after 93 days at sea in the whaleboat. was first captain on the infamous Whaler Essex, which was first rammed twice by a Sperm Whale and then sank. Here I have someone who has really leased the bad luck. Since we just talked about unlucky people on board a ship. ![]()
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