Hvb "Port Saunders"

Hvb "Port Saunders"

Oct 6, 2016 | Andre/Others, California, California Sea Products Co., Hvb P, Port Saunders, San Francisco Sea Products Co.

The Norwegian built whaleboat “Port Saunders”. The boat was built by Akers Mek. i 1904 for Hawkes Bay Whaling Co. (Newfoundland). In the early 1920s, the boat was sold to California Sea Products Co., a company founded by Norwegian emigrant Frederick Kristian Dietrichson (F.K. Dedrick).
It came beyond the 1920s laws prohibiting ships built outside the United States to take part in the fisheries in the United States (after a major case involving the sale of the Norwegian-built catchers “Hawk” and “Port Saunders” from Newfoundland to California Sea Products Co.. i San Francisco).

Hvb "Port Saunders"

HVB “Port Saunders”


Photographer: unknown.

"Pingvin"

"Pingvin"

May 2, 2012 | Berg, Hvalbåter/Catchers, Hvb P, Penguin, Poster, Thorndahl

Whaling boat “Penguin” i 59/60 season. Catch Number eight.
It looks like fin on both sides.
Year: 1959/60
Photo: Morten Marinius Berg. Thanks to Kjell Christian Z. Børresen
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Pol catchers towed through the ice pack

Pol catchers towed through the ice pack

Apr 20, 2012 | Hvalbåter/Catchers, Hvb P, Melsom & Melsom, Unidentified / Unidentified, W.L. Crowther Library

Pol catchers towed through the ice pack. The picture was taken on 72 degrees south.
[Title written in ink on the back.]
One of a number of images (usually referred to as Tilley album) taken under 1926-27 whaling expedition Nielsen Alonso in the Ross Sea, Antarctic.
W.L. Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, Pol boats being towed through pack ice 72 south (Tilley Album), (AUTAS001125641985).