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Monday, 3 August 2020

British Greenland whaler The Vigilence in 1730

Commandeur Jan Roelofsz, catch results 3 whales and 120 barrels. The name of the whaler is more or less English, of the commandeur apparently Dutch, but perhaps they were translated from the English into a Dutch spelling.

Source
Europische Mercurius, October 1730, edition page 213.

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