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Sunday, 6 December 2020

Dutch Greenland whaler de Johannes returned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 8 August 1758

An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 31 July of the Dutch whaler de Johannes, commandeur Cornelis Pieters Quak with 2 whales 35 quardelen returning from Greenland.  

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1. Commander between 1736-1768, in 1758 for Jan Middelman en Zoon, Amsterdam, Netherlands , also 60 quardelen whale oil. Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written note until 1794.

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