OUR NAME
The name “Stove Boat” is taken from the ‘song of the whaleman’ in Chapter 36 of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
“A dead whale or a stove boat!” was the New Bedford and Nantucket whalemen’s motto, meaning ‘failure is not an option’.
The name “Stove Boat” is taken from the ‘song of the whaleman’ in Chapter 36 of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
“A dead whale or a stove boat!” was the New Bedford and Nantucket whalemen’s motto, meaning ‘failure is not an option’.