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Heroines - THE WHALING MUSEUM

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HOME VISIT EXHIBITS THINGS TO DO EDUCATION JOIN & SUPPORT BLOG ABOUT Heroines at the Helm "I THINK I AM QUITE A SAILOR."   Charlotte DEHART Whaling Wives Were Pioneers The saga of hunting whales was unquestionably viewed as man’s world.  “It is no place for a woman,” wrote Captain James Haviland on the Baltic in 1856, “on board of a whaleship.”  The Whaling Museum's special exhibit, Heroines at the Helm, explores how whaling wives pushed gender roles in two major ways: Wives at home became masters of their households. Living almost like a widow, they maintained their families as single parents, took care of elderly parents, paid the bills (or lived on credit), and tended to any farming. Some women became entrepreneurs, running inns, becoming teachers, or serving as midwives. ​Whaling wives broke social barriers by joining their husbands at sea for the first time. A number of captain’s wives broke boundaries by deciding to do what no woman had done before: join thei

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