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Thursday, 7 January 2021

Catch results of British Davis Strait whalers according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemsche courant dated 15 July 1790

An item reported that a commandeur who arrived in England returning from Davis Strait stated that the British whalers there present in 26 May with 17 ships caught 32 whales en according to the latest British letters arrived one whaler fully loaded at Shields and one at Leith with 9 whales returning from Greenland. 

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