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Skeleton of 200-year-old whale mentioned in Moby Dick will be restored

2025-03-06 506 Dailymotion

Conservationist are hoping to raise £80,000 to restore the huge skeleton of a 200-year-old whale which is mentioned in the classic novel Moby Dick.<br /><br />Constable Moby, is a 58ft-long bull sperm whale which washed up on Tunstall Beach near Withernsea, East Yorkshire, UK on April 28, 1825.<br /><br />The skeleton of the animal has been kept at an outhouse at Burton Constable, a 13th century mansion near Hull, East Yorkshire since the 1830s but it eventually became neglected and fell into poor condition. <br /><br />Constable Moby, who is also known as 'Mo', was even mentioned in the 1851 novel 'Moby Dick' that was written by American writer Herman Melville.

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