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Historic Nantucket P H O T O : T A N E C A S S E R L E Y / N O A Lost A Found In Papah änaumoku äkea Marine National Monument: The Possible Wreck Site of the Nantucket Whaleship Two Brothers By Kelly Gleason, Ph. D. Jason T. Raupp, Ph. D. Candidate One of four large trypots discovered at an unidentified whaling shipwreck site at French Frigate Shoals in the NWHI (the “Shark Island Whaler”). Fall 2 01 0 | Lost Found Manyare familiarwith the fat e... of the Nantucket whaleship Essex, stove by a whale in the Pacific Ocean and well known as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. After the tragedy of the Essex, Captain George Pollard Jr. and other survivors endured a journey of more than ninety days in small boats that resulted in sickness; starvation; and, ultimately, cannibalism. However, that dramatic experience was not the final chapter in Pollard’s career as a whaling captain. After his return to Nantucket, Pollard was entrusted with command of the whaleship Two Brothers, a vessel smaller than the Essex at 217 tons. The Two Brothers set sail for the Pacific, leaving Nantucket on November 26, 1821. She made her way around Cape Horn, up the west coast of South America, and headed for newly discovered whaling grounds in the Pacific. Sailing in consort with the whaleship Martha, they encountered stormy weather in the vicinity of French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [NWHI]. Not long afterwards, the ship struck a reef and was surrounded by breakers. Stunned by the disaster and by his recurrent misfortune, Captain Pollard was reluctant to abandon the ship. The crew pleaded with their captain to get into the small boats, to which they clung for survival throughout the night. When they awoke, the crew found the Martha anchored in the lee of a fifty-foot-tall rock (now called La Perouse Pinnacle). The Martha rescued the entire crew of Two Brothers and headed back to Oahu. Maritime archaeologists Captain Pollard’s career as a whaling captain was Cathy Green and Jason over, but the story of the Two Brothers remains on the Raupp document artifacts seafloor at French Frigate Shoals within at an unidentified whaling Papah änaumoku äkea Marine National Monument shipwreck site at French [PNMN]. The story of this shipwreck, and the Frigate Shoals (the “Shark P H O T possibility of discovering its remains, connects the Island Whaler”). O : T A N small island of Nantucket with one of the largest E C A protected marine areas in the world. S S E R L Papah änaumoku äkea Marine National Monument E Y / N O lies beyond the main eight populated islands of A A Hawaii. The low-lying atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) contain years of seafaring history and the stories of over a hundred and twenty | Historic Nantucket Kure Atoll (Kanemiloha`i) Known: Whaling Ships Lost in Gledstanes (1837) Papahanaumokuakea Parker (1842) Midway Atoll (Pihemanu) Marine National Monument Lisianski Island (Papa `apoho) Reported: Pearl and Hermes Holder Borden (1844) Konohasset (1846) Gardner Pinnacles (Puhahonu) (Holoikauaua) Known: Pearl (1822) Necker Island (Mokumanamana) Hermes (1822) N Laysan Island (Kauo) cer Tropic of Can Reported: Unidentified American Whaler (pre 1859) French Frigate Shoals (Mokupapapa) Known: M A P : Shark Island Whaler (1844) C O Nihoa Island U R Maro Reef T Reported: E S Y (Nalukakala) Two Brothers (1823) O F N South Seaman (1859) O A Daniel Wood (1867) A shipwrecked vessels and sunken aircraft. The National Oceanic and operations spread north into the Pacific in search of lucrative whaling Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) and PMNM Maritime Heritage grounds off South America; Australia; Japan; and, finally, the Gulf of Alaska Programs are committed to preserving these resources, and to date and the Bering Sea. Hawaii won its place on whalers’ charts soon after the maritime archaeologists have documented many vessel and aircraft British ships Balaena and Equator harpooned the first whale off the coast wreck sites in these remote islands and atolls. Efforts to fully document of Maui in 1819. American and British whalers first encountered the low these sites are ongoing, along with work to interpret and share these and uncharted atolls of the NWHI on their passages westward from the virtually inaccessible time capsules with the public. ports of Honolulu and Lahaina to the newly discovered Japan Grounds The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are geographically and historically in 1820. remarkable. On June 15, 2006, President George W. Bush established the Whalers played an important role in early exploration of the Pacific. Papah änaumoku äkea Marine National Monument. Management of its Midway Atoll was originally sighted by Captain Daggett of the New resources includes the natural, cultural, and maritime-heritage resources Bedford whaler Oscar in 1839; Laysan was reportedly discovered by the of this remote and dramatic place.The surrounding waters contain a large American whaleship Lyra prior to 1828; and Gardner Pinnacles was percentage of all coral reefs found under United States’ jurisdiction and named by Captain Allen of the Nantucket whaler Maro in 1820, the same support more than seven thousand marine species, of which one quarter year the ship came across Maro Reef. Sometimes shipwrecks even played are unique to the Hawaiian Islands chain. In addition, the Northwestern a role in giving the islands their western names. One example is Pearl Hawaiian Islands have been an area of continuous maritime activity for and Hermes Atoll, which was named for the wrecks of the British whalers hundreds of years. The legacy of seafaring can be seen in the record of Pearl and Hermes, lost in 1822. over sixty known ship losses and over sixty-seven known aircraft crashes The opening of the Japan Grounds sent many whaling ships through in these remote atolls. Vessel activities included exploration, merchant the low-lying atolls of the NWHI. Over the decades, ten whalers were shipping, fishing, guano mining, military use, wrecking, and salvage. As a reported lost in the area and, to date, five of the wrecks have been located result of these activities, the wrecks of fishing vessels, copra traders, and investigated by NOAA and PMNM maritime archaeologists. Sites of Japanese sampans, trans-Pacific colliers and bulk carriers, as well as U.S. whaling shipwrecks from the early nineteenth century are quite rare, and and Japanese Naval vessels and aircraft are known to have occurred. those in PNMN provide a unique glimpse into our maritime past. Whaling activities in the Pacific in the early- to mid-1800s also form an The annual maritime archaeological surveys conducted in the NWHI important part of the seafaring legacy of the NWHI, and the material focus on the exploration and discovery of new maritime-heritage sites remains of this era can be seen on the Monument’s seafloor. and the documentation and interpretation of known sites. Exploration This string of tiny islands, atolls, shoals, and banks possess the remains for new shipwreck sites in the NWHI involves a combination of archival of at least ten whaling vessels reported lost in the most remote archipelago research and field work that includes diver surveys using SCUBA and tow- on earth. In the first half of the nineteenth century, global whaling boarding methods (when a snorkeler is drawn behind a boat to maximize Fall 2 01 0 | Lost Found coverage of the survey area). In 2008, the maritime-heritage team focused its work on diver surveys in areas of potential loss of the British whaleship Gledstanes, lost in 1837 at Kure Atoll, and at a historic anchorage at French Frigate Shoals. In previous years, the Monument’s maritime-heritage program documented the whaling shipwrecks Pearl and Hermes , two British whalers lost in 1822 when they encountered the uncharted atoll that now bears their names, and the New Bedford whaler Parker , lost during a fierce storm at Kure Atoll on September 24, 1842. During the 2008 expedition, the team met with exciting success at both survey areas with the discovery of two new whaling shipwreck sites. The first ofthese discoveries was made at Kure Atoll, when, following two days of diver surveys, tucked in close along the fore reef, the NOAA dive team identified a pile of iron ballast and chain. The ballast led a trail into the dramatic topography of the reef where more artifacts were found scattered, including four large anchors, iron ballast, cannon, and the remains of a trypot. The team is confident that the remains are those of the British whaler Gledstanes, which wrecked in heavy seas on the reef at Kure Atoll in 1837. Investigation of the story of the Gledstanes and her survivors is under way and, though currently limited, adds to the important legacy of shipwreck survival stories at Kure Atoll. After the loss of their ship, the crew launched the ship’s small boats and made for the closest dry land, which was Ocean Island on the other side of the Maritime archaeologist atoll. In a short time, the ship broke apart in the heavy surf, Kelly Gleason measures but the crew salvaged what it could from their destroyed agrinding wheel at the site of ship and set about fashioning a thirty-eight-foot vessel that P an unidentified whaling H O they named Deliverance. Like so many other sites in the T O shipwreck at French Frigate : D Monument, the Gledstanes site has truly become part of the E R Shoals (the “Shark Island E K environment over the last 170 years. Some heavy metal S Whaler”). M I T H artifacts (such as the cannon) have been weathered and / N O A worn to the point that their features are difficult to A distinguish.
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