Early whaling - page 2
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Pictures from the early days of commercial whaling, the species hunted and how they were processed. Click the image for a larger version, click the text to go to an information page.

Cutting in, cutting diagrams for flensing sperm and bowhead whales

Fastened to the whale by harpoon and line, firing a bomb lance

Hoisting aboard the whalebone from a right whale

The whale's tail

The baleen plates

Bowhead and Pacific Right Whales

Sulphur bottom whales

Spanning

Azores whalers harpooning a sperm whale

Azores whalers moving in to lance a sperm whale

Blackfish or Pilot Whales stranded at Cape Cod

Blackfish, Pilot Whales stranded at Thurso Scotland

Cutting in a Humpback whale, shore station

Long Island, whale processing

Whale upper jaw and baleen plates

Whale and whaler before crowd

Whaling Station, Gray's Harbor, Washington

Sperm Whaling Industry, Durban South Africa

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