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Skip Finley spent many years in the radio broadcasting business. He developed a passion for the study of whaling captains and wrote a book on whaling captains of color. This is his first non-fiction book and we spoke about the book and the writing process.
1:06 – Skip talks about how he got into writing on whaling captains.
2:49 – Skip talks about whaling.
5:55 – Skip talks about whaling and the American Revolution.
8:34 – Skip talks about whaling captains impacted by the Revolution.
9:46 – Skip talks about where the British kept prisoners during the American Revolution.
12:10 – Skip talks about the US Civil War how easy it was for the South to destroy whalers.
14:22 – Skip talks about what Confederates did with black whalers they caught.
14:54 – Skip talks about an encounter between a whaler and a German submarine in WWI.
18:38 – Skip talks about whaling between the American Revolution and the US Civil War.
22:34 – Skip talks about where the whaling industry was centered.
25:04 – Skip talks about doing the research for the book.
35:33 – Skip talks about the connection between Navy duty and whaling duty.
38:12 – Skip talks about John Mashall and the types of ships he designed.
39:39 – Skip goes into more detail about the books he used for his research.
43:40 – Skip talks about how one became a whaling captain.
45:24 – Skip talks about how important Nantucket and whaling was to black freedom.
58:33- Skip can be found at skipfinley.com
Links of interest
https://www.usni.org/press/books/whaling-captains-color
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Guests: Skip Finley
Host: Cris Alvarez
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