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The Famous Tay Whale is a poem by William Topaz McGonagall about a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee Scotland then the UK’s main whaling port. The Tay whale came to public prominence when it was subject to a public dissection by Sir John Struthers and taken on a tour of the UK. Its skeleton now resides in the McManus Galleries in Dundee city centre.McGonagall’s poem was set to music by the composer Mátyás Seiber in 1958.
