“Petrel”
Whaling boat “Petrel” anchored in the Cumberland bay.
Photo: Leif Brandt
Year: 1950. 16. October.
HVB “Karrakatta”
A/S Rosshavets hvalbåt “Karrakatta” at the drop of Ross Sea Kaipipi Shipyard, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Stewart Island was a workshop and storage place for the Ross Sea in a few years (that 1925-32).
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Photographer: unknown
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“Uni-3”
Durban-based Union Whaling its Hvb “Uni-3” on field.
Photo: Edwin Cook
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Hvb "Star X" (1951)
Rosshavets hvalbåt “Star X” built in Bergen and Fredrikstad 1951.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Photographer: unknown
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Hvb "Treern" (1929)
Thor Dahl Whaler “Treern” in high seas once thirties.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Photographer: unknown
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Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Photographer: unknown
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"Southern Breeze"
Catcher “Southern Breeze”, South Shetlands
More on the “Southern Breeze” here.
Photographer: J.S. Hodgson.
Images are from Torkel Fagerli‘s collection.
Hvalbåt og SS "Auldgirth"
An A / S Congo catchers, presumably “wolverines In”, towing transport ship “Auldgirth” (bark). A / S Congo susceptible of establishing five catchers. these were “wolf In”, “But I”, “bear In”, “wolverines In” and “wolf In”. “Auldgirth” where, at the time the photo was taken, loaded with materials for the creation of A / S Congos land station in Baie du Prince, Cap Lopez. The dating of the picture, as it is taken on the first trip down, will be 1921-1922.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Year: 1921-
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Hvb "Port Saunders"
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”
Photographer: unknown.
Salvesen-catcher
Unidentified Smith Docks built Salvesen-catcher with whale along the side of the road into the digester.
Salvesen
Photographer: Allan Stewart Greig
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Hvb "Gleaner"
The American whaleboat “Gleaner”. 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. “Gleaner” is an example of a tug built into Whaler. Minesweepers and trawlers were also built for the purpose.
HVB “Gleaner”
Photographer: unknown.
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