The trunk's contents were finally inspected in 1960 and "The Loss of the Ship" Essex "Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats" was discovered.
The trunk's contents were finally inspected in 1960. Nickerson died in 1883, but it was only in 1960 that his unedited manuscript "The Loss of the Ship" Essex "Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats" was discovered.