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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. [1] [2] [failed ...
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.
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.
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Then in 1953, Robertson learned that the recently formed Australian whaling company Whale Products Pty. Ltd. was seeking an engineer for its newly purchased whale chasing vessels "Kos I" and "Kos II" operating out of their station at Tangalooma, in Moreton Bay, [8] [9] and joined the company in support of these two vessels, settling with his ...
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