Flanged 9 whale, and now just blue. In the night at 1 o'clock we got quite right eye on the lights of the "Kosmos". Now we are all 4 factory ships and 30 catchers here, so it is well part competition. In the night all the boats been bunkered quite full from the last fyroljetanken, so now paints the well towards the end.
– Øivind Schau
Flanged 6 blue and 2 finn. The weather is beautiful again right "hvalvær". Just nu coat "Kos 5" just past us. It is supposedly "Kosmos" which has the, so we get well soon see floating factory No.. 3 herborte. The new message is 137 000 hold and 1225 whale. It is a growth last week on 9000 hold and 80 whale.
– Øivind Schau
Out in the bay right at Thorøya located “Thorshavet” and “Thorshøvdi”. Left at Jahres Factories located “space III” and “space IV”. By Foreness located “Sir James Clark Ross” and what is probably “Abraham Larsen”. Inside the harbor is Jahres, Ross Sea and Thor Dahls catchers.
Photo: From private collection, photographer unknown.
Kokeri Nummer 6 in a series of 10.
Flk “Kosmos” upon first arrival to Oslo. She was at delivery the world's largest factory ship / tanker.
A / S Space’ Whaler “Kos 29” the field accompanied by four other Kos-boats.
Year: unknown
From Oddbjørn Huseby archive.
Boiling Rier laid in Mefjorden in Sandefjord. from right: C.A. Larsen, Fraternitas, Ernesto Tornquist, Congo, Table Mountain, cosmos II, Vestfold and Foyn (II). The last three were nylevert from shipyards since the crash of whale oil market came after season 1930/31 and was delivered directly to circulation.
After circulation was Congo broken up in 1935, Ernesto Tornquist was converted into freighters (still owned by Pesca), they were thus no longer used as factory ships.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord [fs2250].
Year: 1931-32
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Website “whaling Archive” is based on the six documents representing Vestfold museums across 450 shelf space of whaling records on the list of Norway dokumentarv. These six can be seen as a kind of monuments to the modern commercial whaling and archives which are created as a result of this. On hvalfangstarkiver.no made these available to a wide audience. Lots of interesting old photographs and a lot of interesting reading here so I recommend taking a look.
From Roar Kristoffersen we have gained access to this old postcard showing the entrance to Sandefjord sometime between 1931 and 1939.
Boiling Rier fjord in Sandefjord
Olav Reidar Hansen Wiik job on blubber on space IV. The Norwegian flensekniven is clearly visible.
The picture was taken sometime between 1950 and 1957.
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Thanks to Kees Heemskerk for this image kosmos V taken by G.Bunschoten.
kosmos V was never adopted as factory ship when it did not succeed Anders Jahre and the company Kosmos to transfer hunting license from space IV to the newly constructed V. More on ship her.
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