Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — Ship Towed by a Whale. [ARTICLE]

Ship Towed by a Whale.

A Maine schooner, while fishing off the banks of Newfoundland, with some 200 fathoms of cable out and sails clewed, was suddenly found to be under headway. It was soon discovered that a huge whale of the finback species had got his tail entangled in the cable and was hauling the craft at the rate of fifteen knots an hour, and, growing mere and more excited, was keeping his course to the sea. The whale finally tore away by breaking the cable.