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

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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.  Constable Moby, is a 58ft-long bull sperm whale which washed up on Tunstall Beach near Withernsea, East Yorkshire, UK on April 28, 1825.  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.   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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00:00Hi, I'm Alistair Hudson, I'm director here at the Byrne Constable Hall in Parkland

00:04and we are hoping to save our whale and make 2025 the year that we do that.

00:10So 200 years ago a 60 foot sperm whale washed up on the shores of Tunstall which is about

00:15nine miles away from here and a few years later it was brought to the Hall in Parklands

00:20and it was studied. It's been a marvel and a spectacle ever since then and so over the years

00:26things have happened to it, it's been a bit disrepaired but we want to save the whale

00:30this year and save Constable Moby and bring him back to life articulating and preserving for

00:36future generations and we're hoping that the public can get involved by sponsoring or adopting

00:42a bone and being able to help us raise the £80,000 we need. It's an amazing thing, not

00:47everywhere has it and it even appears in the epic Moby Dick by Herbert Melville. We think it's a

00:53fantastic thing, we want to celebrate it and we want future generations to celebrate it too.

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