
liquid floating factory “Table Mountain” on field
Kokeriet “Table Mountain” hauls up blue whales through the break.
Photo: Tor Hjaltun
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Kokeriet “Table Mountain” hauls up blue whales through the break.
Photo: Tor Hjaltun
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Flk “cosmos II” on the way into Sandefjordsfjorden sometime in the 30s. Original photo: Vestfold museums. Can be purchased as a print. I take coloring assignments.
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Flk “Hektoria” (2). Built as a passenger- and the freezer vessel “Medic” for White Star Line i 1899. Original photo: Vestfold museums. Can be purchased as a print. I take coloring assignments.
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Flk “Thorshammer”. Photo taken between 1928 and 1931, before she got stern release. In front is D / T “Thor Minor”. Original photo: Wilse / National Library. Can be purchased as a print. I take coloring assignments.
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Salvesens smell Flk “Sourabaya” at the quay in Tonsberg.
coloring: Photo focal / Geir Rosset
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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Kokeriet “Sir James Clark Ross” Netherlands towed by tug “President Roosevelt”.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
Photographer: unknown
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Some of the crew aboard the Flk “Commander In” sometime between 1923 and 1927. Some have been on bear hunting, and since it's a brown bear, it must be from the period when the factory ship captured by the Bering Strait off Alaska. Other fields “Commander In” caught was Kamsjatka, Mexico and the Galapagos. A / S Vega with deficit and the ship was sold to Pesca in 1927 and renamed “Ernesto Tornquist”.
Photo: Ridar Bjørge Borge
Year: 1923-1927.
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King Neptune with a result comes on board in Ross Sea Flk “Sir James Clark Ross” (1922)i 1926/27.
Photo: Ove Christiansen
Year: 1926-1930.
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Halepartien of whale has been hoisted up on the plan on Flk “Southern Queen” and lemmerne have started to cut away the flesh.
Dated to 1923.
Photographer: J.S. Hodgson
Images are from Torkel Fagerli‘s collection.
Salvage crews approaching “Ole Wegger” which is sunk in the Seine at Rouen after WWII. She was sunk by German forces blockade summer 1944. In December, she was raised, brought to Falmouth and put into drydock. She was condemned and in May 1946 she was towed to Gothenburg for hugging.
Photo: Geoffrey Lott (taken by his father).
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