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Stranded whales, or drift whales that died at sea and washed ashore, provided meat, oil (rendered from blubber) and bone to coastal communities in pre-historic Britain.A 5,000 year old whalebone figurine was one of the many items found in the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in Scotland after that Stone Age settlement was uncovered by a storm in the 1850s. [1]
Whaling, by Abraham Storck Dangers of the Whale Fishery, by W. Scoresby, 1820 Whaling off the Coast of Spitsbergen, by Abraham Storck. Encouraged by reports of whales off the coast of Spitsbergen, Norway, in 1610, the English Muscovy Company (also known as the Russian Company) sent a whaling expedition there the following year. The expedition ...
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Whaling was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. By the 16th century, it had become the principal industry in the Basque coastal regions of Spain and ...
Samuel Enderby & Sons was a whaling and sealing company based in London, England, founded circa 1775 by Samuel Enderby (1717–1797). [1] The company was significant in the history of whaling in the United Kingdom, not least for encouraging their captains to combine exploration with their business activities, and sponsored several of the earliest expeditions to the subantarctic, Southern Ocean ...
A. A. T. Gifford; SS Aberdeen (1912) Achilles (1813 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Admiral Barrington (1781 ship) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Adventure (1804 ship)
Whaling was gruesome but adventurous, unpredictable but patterned, and high-risk but high-reward. It was also definitionally a long haul—if ships were at sea for 18 months, that was an ...
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The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling places. Commercial whaling started in the Middle Ages , and by the 1750s most Scottish ports were whaling, [ 1 ] with the Edinburgh Whale-Fishing Company being founded in 1749.