JS #1576-Oh you and your figureheads,John !
Well ,having mislaid my 'Every Boys Bumper Book of Ships Figureheads '(4th edition )many years ago- I think lent it to an old seadog captain to satisfy his nostalgia for figureheads and sea chests,or so he said,I resorted,as one does,to thumbing through the surprisingly well-thumbed Figureheads and Bowsprit pages of the shipchandlers catalogue ,and think the best one might be this one-,that is our Natalia adorning the bows of a vessel called,appropriately-Natalia.
No,Natalia is not a whale,and is not impaled upon our bow.She's very obliging and even took a forward draft reading for me...