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Another company, West Coast Whaling Company, was organized in 1912 to operate out of Trinidad, California. [50] While whaling came to an end on the east coast in the early 20th-century, it lingered and even rebounded briefly on the west coast. A small shore-based whaling operation existed in San Francisco through the early 1970s.
The Old Whaling Station or Old Whaling Station Portuguese Bend was a whaling station in California, built in 1869. The Old Whaling Station was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.381) on Jan. 3, 1944. The Old Whaling Station at Portuguese Bend was located in what is now Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes, California in Los Angeles ...
The Joseph & William R. Wing Company was the largest whaling firm in the United States. Based in New Bedford, Massachusetts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the J. & W. R. Wing Co. was the agent for 236 whaling voyages from 1852 until 1914 and was among the last whaling companies operating in the United States.
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (12 P) Pages in category "Whaling in the United States" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
This is a list of Whaling Walls, which are large outdoor murals by the American artist Robert Wyland (b. 1956), ... South Padre Island, Texas: March 14, 1994:
Firms focusing on whaling, the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil which became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution.
Transocean started in the 1970s as a whaling company and expanded through a series of mergers. The new company was called Transocean Offshore. The new company began building massive drilling operations with drills capable of going to 10,000 feet (as opposed to 3,000 feet at the time) and operating two drill operations on the same ship.
Old Carolina is situated on the west bank of the Trinity River, and was founded on land granted by John H. Cummings, nearby the Missouri Pacific Railroad.The town was founded in the 1830s, and was originally called Bath, and was renamed to Old Carolina c. 1838, honor of a settler named Carolina Shores.