“His grandfather was out whaling during World War I in the Atlantic and was stopped by a German U-boat, and the initial sense of it was they were going to sink his whaleship,” Taber ...
The Wanderer, built in 1878, was the last whaleship made in Mattapoisett before it became the summer community it is today. “Whaling was 20 years past its prime,” Gaudet said, “so in a sense ...