Vintage New England - The Chas. W. Morgan

Antique souvenir post card
Linen era, circa 1930s
Tichnor publications

C.W. MORGAN docked in New Bedford, Massachusetts


 The Charles W. Morgan is the last of an American whaling fleet that numbered more than 2,700 vessels.
Built and launched in 1841, the Morgan is now America’s oldest commercial ship still afloat – only the USS Constitution is older.

 Over an 80-year career, the Morgan embarked on 37 voyages with most lasting three years or more. Built for durability, not speed, she roamed every corner of the globe in her pursuit of whales. She is known as a “lucky ship,” having successfully navigated crushing Arctic ice, hostile natives, countless storms, Cape Horn roundings and, after she finished her whaling career, even the Hurricane of 1938.

 After her whaling days ended in 1921, the Morgan was preserved by Whaling Enshrined, Inc. and exhibited at Colonel Edward H.R. Green’s estate at Round Hill in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, until 1941. In November of that year, the Morgan came to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut where she has since dominated the waterfront at Chubb’s Wharf.

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