Narwhal was a whaling ship, a barque which was part of the Arctic fleet between 1883 and 1907. [1] [2]
The bark Narwhal ... was 'knocked down' by an auctioneer for $1,500 to satisfy a claim of $1,100 entered by F. Meyer, the ship's cook.
The famous old Pacific whaling bark, Narwhal, is also based in this port while being used by John Barrymore in the filming of Herman Melville's epic of the whaling industry, "Moby Dick." On the screen Moby Dick will be seen as the Sea Beast.