Whaling Collection (page 2)

Toll House Inn Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. The Toll House was built in 1709, and used for collecting tolls during the days when the whaling industry was at its height. Date: 1934

Beerenberg (Bear Mountain), Jan Mayen Island
Beerenberg is a stratovolcano which forms the northeastern end of the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen and is a part of Kingdom of Norway. It was used as a whaling base by the Dutch

Whale hunting vessel and factory by G. H. Davis
Floating whale factories: ships which reduce their prey to oil and by-products on the spot. A whale-hunting factory and its catcher vessels at work in the Antarctic

Whaler with Harpoon
A fisherman on the deck of a whaling ship next to a large harpoon. Date: early 1930s

Steamer Orion - Pacific Whaling Company, Victoria, B. C
Steamer Orion - Pacific Whaling Company, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Date: circa 1910s

Donkergat, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Whaling station, Don Kergat (Donkergat), Western Cape Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Salamander Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Whaling station, Salamander Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Whaling ship in rough seas. Date: late 19th century

Whaling / New England
A small whaler makes haste towards its target, in choppy seas off New England, U.S.A. Date: 1890

Hauling a Whale In
Hauling a whale onto a fishing vessel. Date: circa 1900

Whaling, South Georgia, 1912 (2) Date: 1912

Whaling scenes at Skaaro. The Nancy Grey with a whale, Norway. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Sperm whaling with its varieties

Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties. Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties

Nipped in the Ice while whaling
American Whalers Crushed in the Ice. Date: ca. 1880

American Whalers Crushed in the Ice. Burning the wrecks to avoid danger to other vessels. Date: ca. 1872

The Whale Fishery Laying On
Whale Fishery. Date: 1852

Sorting Whale Blubber
Fishermen sorting out whale blubber on shore. Date: 1930s

The Terra Nova, 1903
Photograph of the three-masted barque, Terra Nova, taken in 1903 when she was setting out for the Antarctic to try to find and help the Discovery expedition

Cutting up a Whale
Cutting up a whale - gathering spermaceti from the head

Stripping Blubber
Stripping whale blubber

Whale Attacks Liner
Sixty whales attack a German liner Prinz Sigismund in the Atlantic, but it escapes them

Whaling in Norway
Cutting up a whale on the Norwegian coast

Sperm Whales Caught
Catching sperm whales

Whaling in Canada
Natives of Nova Scotia whaling

Whaling Log Book
A hand-written entry into a whaling log book, including ink drawings of whales

Whale Bone Pub Entrance
An archway made of whale bones outside a pub entrance at Great Wrathing, Suffolk, England

Marine Life / Whaling
Whaling in the Arctic

Stripping Whale Blubber
A whale is caught and stripped exposing its blubber

Whaling / Crew in Danger
The crew in danger A small whaling vessel is overturned by a whale

Whaling / Sir John Ross
Sir John Ross on his first expedition: a whale hunt in Melville Bay. Date: 1818

Whaling / Newfoundland
Whaling on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland

Whaling in Japan
A whaling scene in Japan : drawing them onto the shore

Whale and Steamship
A whale captured by a steamship

Norwegian Fishing Boat
Norwegian fishing boat with a whale

Whale and Fisherman
A fisherman begs a whale not to swallow him

Beached Whale / Norway
A beached whale at Hvalfanger station, Norway

Whaling / Javelin Bomb
A javelin bomb used for whaling

French Whaler 1850
French whaler standing with his rope and harpoon

Whaling in 1880
Whaling from a small boat

Chasing Bow-Head Whale
The chase of the bow-head whale

Whaling in the Pacific

Whaling Scene 1555
Hunting for whales and searching for amber off the Scandinavian coast Date: 1555

E J Eyre Completes Trek
EDWARD JOHN EYRE, English explorer in Australia & his aborignine friend WYLIE being greeted by the English captain (Rossiter) of a French whaling ship in June 1841

Whaling in Deptford
Catching a whale off Deptford Pier

Baleen Whale & Whalers
A whale-boat approaches a Baleen Whale in the northern seas

Whaling / Landed Whales
Landed whales in Norway

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