After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.
After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale on November 20, 1820, the survivors were left floating in three small whaleboats.
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