August 19, 2025 • 15 mins
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) served as the First Mate of the ill-fated whale ship Essex, which met a tragic fate when it was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. In the aftermath, Chase penned the gripping account titled Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, published in 1821. This harrowing tale not only chronicles the desperate survival of the crew but also served as a profound inspiration for Herman Melvilles iconic novel, Moby-Dick. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Section five of the Shipwreck of the whale ship Essex
by Owen Chase. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by Phil Schamp, Chapter three, Part two, November twenty
third to the thirtieth November twenty third. In my chest,
which I was fortunate enough to preserve, I had several
(00:23):
small articles which we found of great service to us.
Among the rest some eight or ten sheets of writing paper,
a lead pencil, a suit of clothes, three small fish hooks,
a jack knife, a wet stone, and a cake of soap.
I commenced to keep a sort of journal with the
little paper and pencil which I had, and the knife,
(00:44):
besides other useful purposes, served us as a razor. It
was with much difficulty, however, that I could keep any
sort of record, owing to the incessant rocking and unsteadiness
of the boat, and the continual dashing of the spray
of the sea over us. The boat can pined, in
addition to the articles enumerated, a lantern, tinder box, and
(01:04):
two or three candles, which belonged to her, and with
which there always kept supplied while engaged in taking whale.
In addition to all which the captain had saved a musket,
two pistols, and a canister containing about two pounds of gunpowder.
The latter he distributed in equal proportions between the three boats,
(01:24):
and gave the second mate and myself each a pistol.
When morning came, we found ourselves quite near together, and
the wind had considerably increased since the day before. We
were consequently obliged to reef our sails, and although we
did not apprehend any very great danger from the then
violence of the wind, yet it grew to be very
(01:45):
uncomfortable in the boats from the repeated dashing of the
waves that kept our bodies constantly wet with the salt spray. We, however,
stood along our course until twelve o'clock, when we got
an observation, as well as we were able to obtain one.
While the water flew all over us, and the sea
kept the boat extremely unsteady. We found ourselves this day
(02:08):
in latitude zero degrees fifty eight minutes south. Having repassed
the equator, we abandoned the idea altogether of keeping any
correct longitudinal reckoning, having no glass nor log line. The
wind moderated in the course of the afternoon a little
but at night came on to blow again, almost a gale.
We began now to tremble for our little bark. She
(02:31):
was so ill calculated in point of strength to withstand
the racking of the sea, while it required the constant
labors of one man to keep her free of water.
We were surrounded in the afternoon with porpoises that kept
playing about us in great numbers, and continued to follow
us during the night. November twenty fourth, the wind had
(02:52):
not abeyd any since the preceding day, and the sea
had risen to be very large and increased if possible
the extreme comfortableness of our situation. What added more than
anything else to our misfortune was that all our efforts
for the preservation of our provisions proved in great measure ineffectual.
(03:12):
A heavy sea broke suddenly into the boat, and before
we could snatch it up, damage some part of it.
By timely attention, however, and great caution, we managed to
make it eatable and to preserve the rest from a
similar casualty. This was a subject of extreme anxiety to us.
The expectation, poor enough of itself, indeed, upon which our
(03:34):
final rescue was founded, must change at once to utter hopelessness,
deprived of our provisions, the only means of continuing us
in the exercise not only of our manual powers, but
in those of reason itself. Hence, above all other things,
this was the object of our utmost solicitude and pains.
We ascertained the next day that some of the provisions
(03:57):
in the Captain's boat had shared a similar fate during
the night, both which accidents served to arouse us to
a still stronger sense of our slender reliance upon the
human means at our command, and to show us our
utter dependence on that divine aid which we so much
the more stood in need. Of November twenty fifth, no
(04:19):
change of wind had yet taken place, and we experienced
the last night the same wet and disagreeable weather of
the preceding one. About eight o'clock in the morning, we
discovered that the water began to come fast in our boat,
and in a few minutes the quantity increased to such
a degree as to alarm us considerably. For our safety,
(04:39):
we commenced immediately a strict search in every part of
her to discover the leak, and after tearing up the
ceiling or the floor of the boat near the bows,
we found it proceeded from one of the streaks or
outside boards, having burst off there, no time was to
be lost in devising some means to repair it. The
great difficul culty consisted in its being in the bottom
(05:02):
of the boat about six inches from the surface of
the water. It was necessary therefore to have access to
the outside to enable us to fasten it on again.
The leak being to leeward, we hove about and lay
two on the other tack, which brought it then nearly
out of the water. The captain, who was at the
time ahead of us, seeing us maneuvering to get the
(05:23):
boat about, shortened sail and presently tacked and ran down
to us. I informed him of our situation, and he
came immediately alongside to our assistance, after directing all the
men in the boat to get on one side the other.
By that means healed out of the water a considerable distance,
and with little difficulty, we then managed to drive in
(05:45):
a few nails and secure it. Much beyond our expectations.
Fears of no ordinary kind were excited by this seemingly
small accident, When it is recollected to what a slight
vessel we had committed ourselves are means of safety alone,
consisting in her capacity and endurance for many weeks, in
all probability yet to come. It will not be considered
(06:08):
strange that this little accident should not only have dampened
our spirits considerably, but have thrown a great bloominess over
the natural prospects of our deliverance. On this occasion, too,
we were enabled to rescue ourselves from inevitable destruction by
the possession of a few nails, without which, had it
not been our fortune to save some from the wreck,
(06:29):
we would, in all human calculation, have been lost. We
were still liable to a recurrence of the same accident,
perhaps to a worse still one, as in the heavy
and repeated racking of the swell. The progress of our
voyage would serve but to increase the incapacity and weakness
of her boat, and the starting of a single nail
in her bottom would most assuredly prove our certain destruction.
(06:53):
We wanted not this additional reflection to add to the
miseries of our situation. November twenty sixth our sufferings, heaven knows,
were now sufficiently increased, and we looked forward, not without
an extreme dread and anxiety to the gloomy and disheartening
prospect before us. We experienced a little abatement of the
(07:16):
wind in rough weather today, and took the opportunity of
drying the bread that had been wet the day previously,
to our great joy and satisfaction. Also, the wind hauled
out to the east northeast and enabled us to hold
a much more favorable course. With these exceptions, no circumstance
of any considerable interest occurred in the course of this day.
(07:38):
The twenty seventh of November was alike undistinguished for any
incident worthy of note, except that the wind again veered
back to east and destroyed the fine prospect we had
entertained of making a good run for several days to come.
November twenty eighth, the wind hauled still further to the
southward and obliged us to fall off our course to south,
(08:01):
and commenced to blow with such violence as to put
us again under short sail. The night set in extremely
dark and tempestuous, and we began to entertain fears that
we should be separated. We, however, with great pains, managed
to keep about a ship's length apart, so that the
white sails of our boats could be distinctly discernible. The
(08:23):
captain's boat was but a short distance astern of mine,
and that of the second mate, a few rods to
leeward of his. About eleven o'clock at night, having laid
down to sleep in the bottom of the boat, I
was suddenly awakened by one of my companions, who cried
out that the captain was in distress and was calling
on us for assistance. I immediately aroused myself and listened
(08:46):
a moment to hear if anything further should be said.
When the captain's loud voice arrested my attention. He was
calling to the second mate, whose boat was nearer to
him than mine. I made all haste to put about,
ran down to him and inquire what was the matter.
He replied, I have been attacked by an unknown fish,
and he has stove my boat. It appeared that some
(09:08):
large fish had accompanied the boat for a short distance
and had suddenly made an unprovoked attack upon her. As
nearly as they could determine with his jaws, the extreme
darkness of the night prevented them from distinguishing what kind
of animal it was. But they judged it to be
about twelve feet in length and one of the killer
fish species. After having struck the boat once, he continued
(09:31):
to play about her on every side, as if manifesting
a disposition to renew the attack, and did a second
time strike the bows of the boat and split her stem.
They had no other instrument of offense but the sprint paw,
a long, slender piece of wood by which the peak
of the sail is extended, with which, after repeated attempts
(09:51):
to destroy the boat, they succeeded in beating him off.
I arrived just as he discontinued his operations and disappeared.
He had made a considerable breach in the bows of
the boat, through which the water began to pour fast,
and the captain, imagining matters to be considerably worse than
they were, immediately took measures to remove his provisions into
(10:12):
the second mate's boat and mine in order to lighten
his own, and by that means and constant bailing to
keep her above the water until daylight should enable him
to discover the extent of the damage and to repair it.
The night was spisy darkness itself. The sky was completely overcast,
and it seemed to us as if fate was wholly
(10:33):
relentless in pursuing us with such a cruel complication of disasters.
We were not without our fears that the fish might
renew his attack sometime during the night upon one of
the other boats and unexpectedly destroy us, But they proved
entirely groundless, as he was never afterwards seen. When daylight came,
(10:54):
the wind again favored us a little, and we all
lay too to repair the broken boat, which was effect
by nailing on thin strips of boards in the inside.
And having replaced the provisions, we proceeded again on our course.
Our allowance of water, which in the commencement merely served
to administer to the positive demands of nature, became now
(11:15):
to be insufficient, and we began to experience violent thirst
from the consumption of the provisions that had been wet
with salt water and dried in the sun. Of these
we were obliged to eat first to prevent their spoiling,
and we could not, nay, we did not dare, to
make any encroachments on our stock of water. Our determination
(11:36):
was to suffer as long as human patience and endurance
would hold out, Having only in view the relief that
would be afforded us when the quantity of wet provisions
should be exhausted. Our extreme sufferings here first commenced. The
privation of water is justly ranked among the most dreadful
of the miseries of our life. The violence of raving
(11:57):
thirst has no parallel in the catalog of human calamities.
It was our hard lot to have felt this in
its extremest force, when necessity subsequently compelled us to seek
resource from one of the offices of nature. We were
not at first aware of the consequences of eating this bread,
and it was not until the fatal effects of it
(12:17):
had shown themselves to a degree of oppression, that we
could divine the cause of our extreme thirst. But alas
there was no relief, ignorant or instructed of the fact,
it was alike immaterial. It composed the part of our subsistence,
and reason imposed upon us the necessity of its immediate consumption,
(12:38):
as otherwise it would have been lost to us entirely.
November twenty ninth, our boats appeared to be growing daily
more frail and insufficient. The continual flowing of the water
into them seem increased without our being able to assign
it to anything else than a general weakness arising from
(12:59):
causes that must, in a short time, without some remedy
or relief, produce their total failure. We did not neglect, however,
to patch up and mend them according to our means,
whenever we could discover a broken or weak part. We
this day found ourselves surrounded by a shoal of dolphins,
some or one of which we tried, in vain a
(13:19):
long time to take. We made a small line from
some rigging that was in the boat, fastened on one
of the fish hooks, and tied to it a small
piece of white rag. They took not the least notice
of it, but continued playing about us nearly all day,
mocking both our misery and our efforts. November thirtieth, This
(13:41):
was a remarkably fine day, the weather not exceeded by
any that we had experienced since we left the wreck.
At one o'clock I proposed to our boat's crew to
kill one of the turtle, two of which we had
in our possession. I need not say that the proposition
was hailed with the utmost enthusiasm. Hunger had set it
its ravenous gnawings upon our stomachs, and we waited with
(14:03):
impatience to suck the warm, flowing blood of the animal.
A small fire was kindled in the shell of the turtle,
and after dividing the blood, of which there was about
a gille among those who felt disposed to drink it,
we cooked the remainder entrails in all and enjoyed from
it an unspeakably fine repast. The stomachs of two or
(14:24):
three revolted at the sight of the blood and refused
to partake of it. Not even the outrageous thirst that
was upon them could induce them to taste it. For myself,
I took it like a medicine to relieve the extreme
dryness of my palate, and stop not to inquire whether
it was anything else than a liquid. After this, I
(14:45):
may say exquisite banquet. Our bodies were considerably recruited, and
I felt my spirits now much higher than they had
been at any time before. By observation this day we
found ourselves in latitude seven degrees fifty tenty three minutes south.
Our distance from the wreck, as nearly as we could calculate,
(15:05):
was then about four hundred and eighty miles end of
Section five,
Section five of the Shipwreck of the whale ship Essex
by Owen Chase. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by Phil Schamp, Chapter three, Part two, November twenty
third to the thirtieth November twenty third. In my chest,
which I was fortunate enough to preserve, I had several
(00:23):
small articles which we found of great service to us.
Among the rest some eight or ten sheets of writing paper,
a lead pencil, a suit of clothes, three small fish hooks,
a jack knife, a wet stone, and a cake of soap.
I commenced to keep a sort of journal with the
little paper and pencil which I had, and the knife,
(00:44):
besides other useful purposes, served us as a razor. It
was with much difficulty, however, that I could keep any
sort of record, owing to the incessant rocking and unsteadiness
of the boat, and the continual dashing of the spray
of the sea over us. The boat can pined, in
addition to the articles enumerated, a lantern, tinder box, and
(01:04):
two or three candles, which belonged to her, and with
which there always kept supplied while engaged in taking whale.
In addition to all which the captain had saved a musket,
two pistols, and a canister containing about two pounds of gunpowder.
The latter he distributed in equal proportions between the three boats,
(01:24):
and gave the second mate and myself each a pistol.
When morning came, we found ourselves quite near together, and
the wind had considerably increased since the day before. We
were consequently obliged to reef our sails, and although we
did not apprehend any very great danger from the then
violence of the wind, yet it grew to be very
(01:45):
uncomfortable in the boats from the repeated dashing of the
waves that kept our bodies constantly wet with the salt spray. We, however,
stood along our course until twelve o'clock, when we got
an observation, as well as we were able to obtain one.
While the water flew all over us, and the sea
kept the boat extremely unsteady. We found ourselves this day
(02:08):
in latitude zero degrees fifty eight minutes south. Having repassed
the equator, we abandoned the idea altogether of keeping any
correct longitudinal reckoning, having no glass nor log line. The
wind moderated in the course of the afternoon a little
but at night came on to blow again, almost a gale.
We began now to tremble for our little bark. She
(02:31):
was so ill calculated in point of strength to withstand
the racking of the sea, while it required the constant
labors of one man to keep her free of water.
We were surrounded in the afternoon with porpoises that kept
playing about us in great numbers, and continued to follow
us during the night. November twenty fourth, the wind had
(02:52):
not abeyd any since the preceding day, and the sea
had risen to be very large and increased if possible
the extreme comfortableness of our situation. What added more than
anything else to our misfortune was that all our efforts
for the preservation of our provisions proved in great measure ineffectual.
(03:12):
A heavy sea broke suddenly into the boat, and before
we could snatch it up, damage some part of it.
By timely attention, however, and great caution, we managed to
make it eatable and to preserve the rest from a
similar casualty. This was a subject of extreme anxiety to us.
The expectation, poor enough of itself, indeed, upon which our
(03:34):
final rescue was founded, must change at once to utter hopelessness,
deprived of our provisions, the only means of continuing us
in the exercise not only of our manual powers, but
in those of reason itself. Hence, above all other things,
this was the object of our utmost solicitude and pains.
We ascertained the next day that some of the provisions
(03:57):
in the Captain's boat had shared a similar fate during
the night, both which accidents served to arouse us to
a still stronger sense of our slender reliance upon the
human means at our command, and to show us our
utter dependence on that divine aid which we so much
the more stood in need. Of November twenty fifth, no
(04:19):
change of wind had yet taken place, and we experienced
the last night the same wet and disagreeable weather of
the preceding one. About eight o'clock in the morning, we
discovered that the water began to come fast in our boat,
and in a few minutes the quantity increased to such
a degree as to alarm us considerably. For our safety,
(04:39):
we commenced immediately a strict search in every part of
her to discover the leak, and after tearing up the
ceiling or the floor of the boat near the bows,
we found it proceeded from one of the streaks or
outside boards, having burst off there, no time was to
be lost in devising some means to repair it. The
great difficul culty consisted in its being in the bottom
(05:02):
of the boat about six inches from the surface of
the water. It was necessary therefore to have access to
the outside to enable us to fasten it on again.
The leak being to leeward, we hove about and lay
two on the other tack, which brought it then nearly
out of the water. The captain, who was at the
time ahead of us, seeing us maneuvering to get the
(05:23):
boat about, shortened sail and presently tacked and ran down
to us. I informed him of our situation, and he
came immediately alongside to our assistance, after directing all the
men in the boat to get on one side the other.
By that means healed out of the water a considerable distance,
and with little difficulty, we then managed to drive in
(05:45):
a few nails and secure it. Much beyond our expectations.
Fears of no ordinary kind were excited by this seemingly
small accident, When it is recollected to what a slight
vessel we had committed ourselves are means of safety alone,
consisting in her capacity and endurance for many weeks, in
all probability yet to come. It will not be considered
(06:08):
strange that this little accident should not only have dampened
our spirits considerably, but have thrown a great bloominess over
the natural prospects of our deliverance. On this occasion, too,
we were enabled to rescue ourselves from inevitable destruction by
the possession of a few nails, without which, had it
not been our fortune to save some from the wreck,
(06:29):
we would, in all human calculation, have been lost. We
were still liable to a recurrence of the same accident,
perhaps to a worse still one, as in the heavy
and repeated racking of the swell. The progress of our
voyage would serve but to increase the incapacity and weakness
of her boat, and the starting of a single nail
in her bottom would most assuredly prove our certain destruction.
(06:53):
We wanted not this additional reflection to add to the
miseries of our situation. November twenty sixth our sufferings, heaven knows,
were now sufficiently increased, and we looked forward, not without
an extreme dread and anxiety to the gloomy and disheartening
prospect before us. We experienced a little abatement of the
(07:16):
wind in rough weather today, and took the opportunity of
drying the bread that had been wet the day previously,
to our great joy and satisfaction. Also, the wind hauled
out to the east northeast and enabled us to hold
a much more favorable course. With these exceptions, no circumstance
of any considerable interest occurred in the course of this day.
(07:38):
The twenty seventh of November was alike undistinguished for any
incident worthy of note, except that the wind again veered
back to east and destroyed the fine prospect we had
entertained of making a good run for several days to come.
November twenty eighth, the wind hauled still further to the
southward and obliged us to fall off our course to south,
(08:01):
and commenced to blow with such violence as to put
us again under short sail. The night set in extremely
dark and tempestuous, and we began to entertain fears that
we should be separated. We, however, with great pains, managed
to keep about a ship's length apart, so that the
white sails of our boats could be distinctly discernible. The
(08:23):
captain's boat was but a short distance astern of mine,
and that of the second mate, a few rods to
leeward of his. About eleven o'clock at night, having laid
down to sleep in the bottom of the boat, I
was suddenly awakened by one of my companions, who cried
out that the captain was in distress and was calling
on us for assistance. I immediately aroused myself and listened
(08:46):
a moment to hear if anything further should be said.
When the captain's loud voice arrested my attention. He was
calling to the second mate, whose boat was nearer to
him than mine. I made all haste to put about,
ran down to him and inquire what was the matter.
He replied, I have been attacked by an unknown fish,
and he has stove my boat. It appeared that some
(09:08):
large fish had accompanied the boat for a short distance
and had suddenly made an unprovoked attack upon her. As
nearly as they could determine with his jaws, the extreme
darkness of the night prevented them from distinguishing what kind
of animal it was. But they judged it to be
about twelve feet in length and one of the killer
fish species. After having struck the boat once, he continued
(09:31):
to play about her on every side, as if manifesting
a disposition to renew the attack, and did a second
time strike the bows of the boat and split her stem.
They had no other instrument of offense but the sprint paw,
a long, slender piece of wood by which the peak
of the sail is extended, with which, after repeated attempts
(09:51):
to destroy the boat, they succeeded in beating him off.
I arrived just as he discontinued his operations and disappeared.
He had made a considerable breach in the bows of
the boat, through which the water began to pour fast,
and the captain, imagining matters to be considerably worse than
they were, immediately took measures to remove his provisions into
(10:12):
the second mate's boat and mine in order to lighten
his own, and by that means and constant bailing to
keep her above the water until daylight should enable him
to discover the extent of the damage and to repair it.
The night was spisy darkness itself. The sky was completely overcast,
and it seemed to us as if fate was wholly
(10:33):
relentless in pursuing us with such a cruel complication of disasters.
We were not without our fears that the fish might
renew his attack sometime during the night upon one of
the other boats and unexpectedly destroy us, But they proved
entirely groundless, as he was never afterwards seen. When daylight came,
(10:54):
the wind again favored us a little, and we all
lay too to repair the broken boat, which was effect
by nailing on thin strips of boards in the inside.
And having replaced the provisions, we proceeded again on our course.
Our allowance of water, which in the commencement merely served
to administer to the positive demands of nature, became now
(11:15):
to be insufficient, and we began to experience violent thirst
from the consumption of the provisions that had been wet
with salt water and dried in the sun. Of these
we were obliged to eat first to prevent their spoiling,
and we could not, nay, we did not dare, to
make any encroachments on our stock of water. Our determination
(11:36):
was to suffer as long as human patience and endurance
would hold out, Having only in view the relief that
would be afforded us when the quantity of wet provisions
should be exhausted. Our extreme sufferings here first commenced. The
privation of water is justly ranked among the most dreadful
of the miseries of our life. The violence of raving
(11:57):
thirst has no parallel in the catalog of human calamities.
It was our hard lot to have felt this in
its extremest force, when necessity subsequently compelled us to seek
resource from one of the offices of nature. We were
not at first aware of the consequences of eating this bread,
and it was not until the fatal effects of it
(12:17):
had shown themselves to a degree of oppression, that we
could divine the cause of our extreme thirst. But alas
there was no relief, ignorant or instructed of the fact,
it was alike immaterial. It composed the part of our subsistence,
and reason imposed upon us the necessity of its immediate consumption,
(12:38):
as otherwise it would have been lost to us entirely.
November twenty ninth, our boats appeared to be growing daily
more frail and insufficient. The continual flowing of the water
into them seem increased without our being able to assign
it to anything else than a general weakness arising from
(12:59):
causes that must, in a short time, without some remedy
or relief, produce their total failure. We did not neglect, however,
to patch up and mend them according to our means,
whenever we could discover a broken or weak part. We
this day found ourselves surrounded by a shoal of dolphins,
some or one of which we tried, in vain a
(13:19):
long time to take. We made a small line from
some rigging that was in the boat, fastened on one
of the fish hooks, and tied to it a small
piece of white rag. They took not the least notice
of it, but continued playing about us nearly all day,
mocking both our misery and our efforts. November thirtieth, This
(13:41):
was a remarkably fine day, the weather not exceeded by
any that we had experienced since we left the wreck.
At one o'clock I proposed to our boat's crew to
kill one of the turtle, two of which we had
in our possession. I need not say that the proposition
was hailed with the utmost enthusiasm. Hunger had set it
its ravenous gnawings upon our stomachs, and we waited with
(14:03):
impatience to suck the warm, flowing blood of the animal.
A small fire was kindled in the shell of the turtle,
and after dividing the blood, of which there was about
a gille among those who felt disposed to drink it,
we cooked the remainder entrails in all and enjoyed from
it an unspeakably fine repast. The stomachs of two or
(14:24):
three revolted at the sight of the blood and refused
to partake of it. Not even the outrageous thirst that
was upon them could induce them to taste it. For myself,
I took it like a medicine to relieve the extreme
dryness of my palate, and stop not to inquire whether
it was anything else than a liquid. After this, I
(14:45):
may say exquisite banquet. Our bodies were considerably recruited, and
I felt my spirits now much higher than they had
been at any time before. By observation this day we
found ourselves in latitude seven degrees fifty tenty three minutes south.
Our distance from the wreck, as nearly as we could calculate,
(15:05):
was then about four hundred and eighty miles end of
Section five,
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