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Sunday, 13 December 2020

Dutch Greenland whaler Groenlandia returned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 22 August 1758

An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 13 August of the Dutch whaler Groenlandia, commandeur Daniël Meyer with 2,5 whale 75 quardelen returning from Greenland.(1)  

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1. Daniel Claasz Meyer commandeur between 1705-1775, in 1758 for Gerret Visser, Zaandam, Netherlands also 134 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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