“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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"Ole Wegger" akter
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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Hvb "Commonwealth"
A / S Western Australias hvalbåt “Commonwealth” the unknown French port. “Commonwealth” trapped in 1912-16 to Flk “Perth”.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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new home
Sigmund Hanssen reads home in a spare moment. The picture was taken on board in what is probably the catcher “Vikings 1” (other photographs in the collection are from this boat) early 1930s.
Posted with permission from Benn Bolt.
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Hvb "Tordönn"
A/S Odds hvalbåt “Tordo” the South Shetland Islands. “Tordo” (also written Tordønn and Thor Dønn) trapped in 27/28 to Kokeriet “Pythia”.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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Flk "Balaena" laid up at Jarlsø
United Whalers’ kokeri “Balaena” laid up at Jarlsø. The tanker left is “this”.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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Hvb "Norønna II"
Sandefjord Whaling Society Whaler “Norønna II” photographed at South Georgia area 1914.
Posted with permission from The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord.
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shooter
Unknown Thorendahl-shooter is getting ready limb.
Photo: Harald Werner
whaling Portrait
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Year: 1930-1959
Photographer: Oskar Ludvigsen
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