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Owen Chase
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship ''Essex'', that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on November 20, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in ''Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex''. This book, published in 1821, would inspire Herman Melville to write ''Moby-Dick''.
==Sinking of the Essex==
(詳細はfirst mate of the ''Essex,'' 21-year-old Owen Chase left Nantucket on August 12, 1819 on a two-and-a-half-year whaling voyage. On the morning of November 20, 1820, the ''Essex'' was twice rammed by a Sperm Whale (alleged to be around ) and sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of South America. The closest known islands, the Marquesas, were more than to the west and the captain of the ''Essex'', George Pollard, intended to make for them but the crew, led by Chase, feared the islands may be inhabited by cannibals and voted to make for South America. Unable to sail against the Trade winds, the boats had to sail south for before they could use the Westerlies to turn towards South America, which would still lie another to the east.〔Edward Leslie & Sterling Seagrave ''Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1998 pg 251 - 253 ISBN 978-0-395-91150-1〕
Of the 21 men in three whale boats who began the journey, eight survived: three who chose to remain on a barely habitable island and five in two boats who attempted to reach South America and who were forced to resort to cannibalism to remain alive.〔
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