Scottish Arctic Whaling - Sanger Chelsey W.
Scottish Arctic Whaling - Sanger Chelsey W. Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. And they did so under almost unimaginably demanding and…
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Scottish Arctic Whaling - Sanger Chelsey W.
Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. And they did so under almost unimaginably demanding and hazardous conditions. The author's extensive use of original sources such as log-books and diaries shows that hundreds of whaling vessels, sailing variously from sixteen east-coast Scottish ports, harvested more than 20,000 bowhead whales at East Greenland, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In 1836 alone, more than 100 whalers on the Advice and Thomas, Dundee, and Dee of Aberdeen perished when they became entrapped at Davis Strait. More than 110 ships were lost, while others were often detained within the pack-ice, causing the whale men to suffer starvation, disease, scurvy, frostbite and death. Nevertheless, by the second half of the nineteenth century, through hard work, skill and
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