George Pollard Jr.

George Pollard Jr.
George Pollard Jr.
Born	c. 1791
Died	1870 (aged 78–79)

George Pollard Jr. (c. 1791–1870) was the captain of the whalers Essex and Two Brothers, both of which sank. Pollard's life, including his encounter with the sperm whale that sank Essex, served as inspiration for Captain Ahab, the whale-obsessed character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.^[1]^[2]

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