Battleship Cove and the New Bedford Whaling Museum

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Oops, I still have a few more!

Two shots of Lagoda's sails taken onboard. If it wasn't for the hall enclosing it, you'd think it was a real ship.





The museum contained a hall of ship models and figureheads, but this is the only one I took a picture of, from the whaleship Leonidas. One would imagine life onboard was awfully spartan.


Original whaleship crows-nest. Not for those afraid of heights.


The centerpiece of another exhibit hall is the skeleton of a 48-foot long male Sperm Whale. He hasn't been named yet, so I'll just call him Moby's Dick.




Best friends forever.


Reproduction of a Yankee whaleboat.


Another of the museum's lifesize reproductions is a whaleship Forecastle. The sail and it's rigging apparently function "just like the real thing," but I didn't plan on playing around with it and inciting the wrath of the museum staff.


Everything is bigger in the movies. Somehow I can't see the boy scouts putting in a lot of requests for overnights here.