# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owen-chase
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:00:21.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owen-chase"
name: "Owen Chase"
slug: "owen-chase"
description: "Owen Chase was first mate of the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on November 20, 1820, after being rammed by a sperm whale. Soon after his return to Nantucket, Chase wrote an account of the shipwreck and the attempts of the crew to reach land in small boats. The book, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, was published in 1821 and would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick."
tagline: "American sailor (1797-1869)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OwenChase.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1797-10-07"
deathDate: "1869-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.57
  momentum:             1.115702479338843
  historical:           6.013114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chase"
    title: "Owen Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "أوين تشيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chase"
    title: "Owen Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chase"
    title: "Owen Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chase"
    title: "Owen Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Chase"
    title: "Owen Chase"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q687630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump