liquid floating factory “Balaena”. The cookery was delivered to United Whalers in 1946. Managers were Nils Bugge and Harald Krogh-Hansen (Tønsberg).
The image can be purchased as an A3 / A2 print.
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coloring: Photo focal / Geir Rosset. Original photo: G. Bunschoten / Kees Heemskerk.
Kokeriene “Southern Harvester” and “Balaena” summer circulation by Husvik. Between these ships is United Whalers’ freezing / supply vessels “Bransfield”. Tinted by Geir Rosset.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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View of Bellsund, at Spitsbergen, i 1905. The first three ships from the left: Turistskipet DS “Kong Harald”, Flk “Bucentaur” and Flk “Vale”. The first sailing ship from left are probably carcass digester “Aviemore”. The second sailing vessel is unknown, but may be A / S fisherman's “Figaro”.
Flk “Balaena” on Husoy flake Tønsberg.
Photographer: Arne Brekke, Tønsberg / Private collection
From toys aboard Flk “Balaena” heading south. The crew sits on the boards that will later be posted on blubber. The lady we see are sick sister Esther, who was the only woman in the field. The other ladies are a couple of handsome guys from the crew! You can read more about her story in the journal nursing.
Photographer: Michael Young.
United Whalers’ kokeri “Balaena” laid up at Jarlsø. The tanker left is “this”.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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An image well shows the difference in size between Flk “Balaena” and “Abraham Larsen”. “Abraham Larsen” was built as “Unitas” i 1937, nine years before “Balaena”. One thing that is worth mentioning is that “Balaena” was begun as aircraft carriers, but the war ended and it quickly became bestemmt that the hull would be more useful if it were completed as whaling factory since it was a great shortage of food in the UK and rest of Europe after five long years of war.
Photo: Wolday, Mekonnen / Slottsfjell Museum
Year: After 1946
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Flk Balaena laid off Jarlsø, Tonsberg with what may be the DS Enderby nearest the camera and DS Bransfield lying on the port side along with two catchers.
year unknown.
Photo in private collection.
Walrus seaplane being hoisted aboard the Flk Balaena. This is (based on other images in the same collection) Walrus G-AHFM that ended up as scrap at an airport in Cowes, UK.
Planes and helicopters on factory ships were no unqualified success. The expeditions spending too much time trying to locate the planes after they routinely ran out of fuel and the reliability was poor in the harsh climate.
Photo: George Barnes
Year: 1946/47
“Bucentaur” with whale photographed in Bellsund in Svalbard 1906.
Year: 1906
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Photographer: A.B. Wilse
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