George Fred Tilton (1861–1932) was an American master mariner, whaler,[1] storyteller, and author who went on his first whaling trip at age 14.

[3] Tilton became a highly accomplished whaler, spending more than forty years at sea hunting whales from the equator to the arctic.

Tilton filled his pockets with crackers and set out to walk the 3,000 miles to help declaring, "if any one can make the trip, I can.

The ship was repaired in a sand berth at the Round Hill (Dartmouth, Massachusetts) estate of Edward Howland Robinson Green.

[6] Tilton writes in his autobiography Cap’n George Fred Himself (1928): "perhaps we two, the ship and myself, compare pretty favorable ... now that we are not wanted to hunt whales anymore, we are laid up here so that people can get some idea of how the business used to be done.