Sailors' Snug Harbor Dock

On August 12, 1819, the Essex made its way out of Nantucket Harbor. Captain George Pollard had a green crew of young seamen, and he knew that leaving the island of Nantucket would come under the eye of the old Salts of Nantucket. All was bustle and confusion set in with the seamen, and the Ship Essex went out of Nantucket Harbor as a clumsy spectacle (Philbrick, 30). In the 1880s, down on the rough wooden docks of Sailors' Snug Harbor sat the old salts, spending the lifelong day watching the white-winged crafts passing up and down. These seamen looked with silent contempt on the ships, like the Nantucketer's before them, because they were square riggers and had served all their lives aboard ships and had no stomach for green or lazy seamen (North,200).

Snug Harbor Dock Removal Plans - Suny Maritime Collections, on permanent loan from Sailors' Snug Harbor

• Mitchell, Robert. Sailors' Snug Harbor Dock, Suny Maritime collection on permanent loan from Sailors' Snug Harbor, Medium: Digital picture of original Black and white photo, 3/17/2022.
• Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,Penguin Books, New York, 2001.
• North, Franklin, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Sailors Snug Harbor, pgs. 192-204, Vol XXVII, June 1884, New York.