In the Atlantic, survivors of a shipwreck aboard a raft have a whale for company till their safe rescue

The small brig Titania left Philadelphia on October 9, 1865, bound for Mobile, Alabama with a load of coal and hay but four days later was leaking badly after a storm.  The crew had time to construct a raft and when the Titania sank the nine men and one woman aboard were able to survive at sea, closely accompanied curiously for hours by a large whale, before being picked up the next day by boats of the U.S.S. Florida.  (By John Osborne)