Tales of seafaring past still to be told

Salem News - 

There are no stages in the world that set a more dramatic tone than the sea.

Recently, it was revealed there may be a connection between a noteworthy shipwreck just discovered in the Pacific Ocean and shipbuilders from the North Shore community of Amesbury.

The ship, the Two Brothers, was found several hundred miles north of Hawaii. It wrecked off remote islands in 1823, but it's the tale of its captain that catches the imagination.

His name was George Pollard Jr. of Nantucket, and before he lost the Two Brothers he had already become a celebrity of sorts in the maritime world. He had captained the Essex, a whaling ship that was attacked and sunk by a whale in the south Pacific.

Never before had an attack like that been recorded.

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