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The Essex was an American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. The ship, captained by George Pollard, Jr., was widely known for being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820 - an incident that served as inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby-Dick.
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