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At the height of Dutch whaling in the year 1762, 1,186 seamen from Föhr were serving on Dutch whaling vessels alone and 25% of all shipmasters on Dutch whaling vessels were people from Föhr. [ 11 ] Dutch supremacy in whaling over other European competitors like France, Germany and Britain diminished in the second half of the 18th century.
Smeerenburg was a whaling settlement on Amsterdam Island in northwest Svalbard. It was founded by the Danish and Dutch in 1619 as one of Europe's northernmost outposts. With the local bowhead whale population soon decimated and whaling developed into a pelagic industry, Smeerenburg was abandoned around 1660.
Whaling, by H. Kobell, Jr. The Noordsche Compagnie (English: Northern Company) was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and operating until 1642. Soon after its founding, it became entangled in territorial conflicts with England, Denmark-Norway, France, and other groups within the Netherlands.
In 1719, the Dutch began "regular and intensive whaling" in the Davis Strait, between Greenland and Canada's Baffin Island. [53] The British South Sea Company financed 172 whaling voyages to Greenland from London's Howland Dock between 1725 and 1732.
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 ...
Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen, painted by Abraham Storck. Charles W. Morgan was a whaleship built in 1841. A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
Pages in category "Whaling in the Netherlands" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
At the height of Dutch whaling in the year 1762, 1,186 mariners from Föhr were serving on Dutch vessels at Greenland and Svalbard and 25% of all shipmasters on Dutch whaling vessels were people from Föhr. [13] In the late 18th century a thousand sailors, 150 Commanders among them, were living on Föhr.