An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 14 August of the Dutch whaler de Vogel Phenix, commandeur Hans Dirksz with 1,5 whale 60 quardelen blubber returning from Greenland.(1)
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1. Commandeur between 1753-1777 for Wed. Kryn en Gerret [Gerrit]van Holst, Krimpen a/d Lek, Netherlands, also 114 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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