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Remembering the wreck of New Bedford’s last great whaleship
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2024-08-28 20:33:40
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The Wanderer at full sail on the ocean.

Contrary to the motto on its municipal seal, New Bedford was no longer the city that lit the world by the 1920s.   America’s lamps mostly ran on electricity and kerosene. Whale byproducts still had some commercial uses: the oil served as a base for various face creams and machine lubricants, ambergris was a fixative in […]

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