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The ship's captain, Peter Bethune, today claimed that, contrary to Sea Shepherd's earlier claims, he was ordered to scuttle the damaged £2m boat by the conservation society's self-styled "master and commander", Paul Watson, against his own wishes, to increase the publicity generated by the whaler's attack.
Conservationists row over ship hit by Japanese whaling vessel Robert Booth 2010
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In the big graveyard, at head and feet of the graves, were relics of past sanguinary history -- blubber-spades, rusty old bayonets and cutlasses, copper bolts, rudder-irons, harpoons, bomb guns, bricks that could have come from nowhere but a whaler's trying-out furnace, and old brass pieces of the sixteenth century that verified the traditions of the early Spanish navigators.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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And, thanks to projections on those big sails, they can also savor the whaler's long journey from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific.
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: A long-standing fixture for high-end meals, Edgartown's L'Étoile is in a lovely old whaler's home, with a mix of fresh seafood and meats (Australian lamb chops) that start at $22 an entrée.
The Low-Key Appeal of Obama's Vacation Spot Robert Reid 2009
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Those timbers could just be some old whaler's boat.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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Although Albert Gifford is emotional about his wife, he does not express much concern about a fellow whaler's death.
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Although Albert Gifford is emotional about his wife, he does not express much concern about a fellow whaler's death.
It Ain't Moby Dick 2005
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Those timbers could just be some old whaler's boat.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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Erikka wondered what the target whaler's crew thought as they saw their unlikely contraption heave itself out of the sea and crash and heave again.
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She hung on as the _Bardot_ crossed the whaler's stern wake and slid into the trough behind the bow wake, the power of her engines keeping her well in hand.
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