“Indus 12”. built as “Falk” AS for the eagle. Year 1937. Boatyard: Apparently Framnæs. 307 brt. Sold Cia Industrial Valparaiso and renamed “Indus 12” i 1955. Planned 1966. (Source: whaling. The adventure ends.)
Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
“Indus 17″ i 1966. built in 1945 as “thorarinn” for Breaking & Dahl ved Smith’s Dock Co Ltd. first season “Thorshammer”. last season 56/57 with “Thorshavet”. Sold Cia Industrial Valparaiso and renamed “Indus 17″ i 1959. I 1968 ble hun solgt til videre Macaya Hermanos y Cia i Talcahuano Chile.
Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
“Indus 5” Valparaiso 1950s.
Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Hand Colored photograph of “Indus 6″ taken in Iquique, Chile, i 1957. built as “Shot 4″ for Hvalfangst Company shooter A / S. Year 1929. Boatyard: Uusimaa Mek. 245 brt. Sold Cia Industrial Valparaiso and renamed “Indus 6” i 1946. The cargo ship in the background is Italian, Genoa-registered, “St. Elizabeth”. (Source: Miramar Ship Index)
Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Whaling boat No Vinke / AM 8 (2) returns with five whale towing to port.
[This must be AM 8 (2) since contributor sailed Willem Barendsz in 60-61 and AM 8 (1) was scrapped in 1959]
Year: 1961
Boatyard: IJsselwerf
from S.N. personal archive.
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Dutch Whaler AM8 [II] – “W ways. Wave”. (1961). The basket is out and she receives supplies from the factory ship (“William Barendsz” (II)).
Photo: Abraham Jansen
[Scannet of paafeltet.org of 5×4″ black / white negatives (Kodak Safety Film) on a Epson V700 Photo in 3200dpi]
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Catchers in Valparaiso in 1956.
Fleet at anchor inside the breakwater. Indus 12 with fire to the boiler making ready to head north.
.Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Indus 12 was built by Framnæs Mechanical Workshop in 1937. I 1956 She was purchased by the Indus and sailed to Iquique. I 1965 she came to Valparaiso. Here we see her moored within the breakwater.
.Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Quintay Whalers’ Indus 19 sail into Iquique 1962.
After the Norwegian Hebrides expeditions to Antarctica in 1959 became Indus 19 and Indus 18 (Suderøy XII and XI) sold to the whaling company Valparaiso Indus who had two land stations: Molle in Iquique and Quintay in Valparaiso.
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Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Whaling boat Indus 8 (ex. Bouvet 2) photographed in 1949.
Photo: Héctor Mendieta Rubillo
Year: 1949
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