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  2. Whaling in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. J. & W. R. Wing Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. History of whaling - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Charles W. Morgan (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Charles W. Morgan 2022 in Mystic. Charles W. Morgan (often referred to simply as "the Morgan") was a whaling ship named for owner Charles Waln Morgan (1796–1861). He was a Philadelphian by birth; he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1818 and invested in several whalers over his career. [8]

  6. Whaling - Wikipedia

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    The Rau IX, a whaling ship built in 1939 for the German margarine company Walter Rau AG, now part of the collection of the German Maritime Museum. Whale oil was an important ingredient of margarine and the company operated its own whaling ships [12] Whales caught 2010–2014, by country

  7. Old Whaling Station - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. The Whaling Museum & Education Center - Wikipedia

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    The library and archival collection contains 2,800 primary and secondary volumes and manuscript material from the Cold Spring whaling fleet, ship’s logs, journals and business correspondence of the Cold Spring Whaling Company, family documents dealing with maritime commerce on Long Island, records of the Long Island coastwise trade under sail ...

  9. American Pacific Whaling Company - Wikipedia

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    American Pacific Whaling Company was a 20th-century whaling company. The fleet worked the North Pacific and wintered in Meydenbauer Bay on Lake Washington, now part of Bellevue, Washington . [ 1 ] The company was founded in Seattle c. 1911 and possibly renamed to North Pacific Sea Products when subsumed by Consolidated Whaling Company with ...