Captain George Pollard Jr. had no choice but to eat his ... 85-foot-long whale barreled head-on into the captain's ship, the Essex of Nantucket, sending it to the ocean’s bottom.
The Essex and the sailors that Chris Hemsworth ... Though their captain, George Pollard Jr., wanted to set sail towards the closest islands, rumors of their allegedly cannibalistic inhabitants ...
Only three days into their voyage, a violent squall battered the Essex, terrifying the inexperienced crew. The ship began to creak and listed dangerously. Captain Pollard managed to reach the ...