E. C. Murray E. C. Murray was a retired captain sent by Josiah Knowles and the Pacific Steam Whaling Company in 1894 as the company manager and storekeeper ashore at Herschel Island and to be a summer relief master for the company's captains.((John R. Bockstoce, //Whales, Ice & Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic.// Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986: 268.))