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Monday, 11 January 2021

German Greenland whalers returning according to the Dutch newspaper Leydse courant dated 24 July 1724

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 22 July reported the arrival at Bremen, Germany of the Greenland whalers het Fortuyn 1 whale 50 quardelen, Byekorff 1 whale 65 quardelen, Martha 1 whale 6 quardelen, Susanna 2-3 whales, Hoop 2 whales 100 quardelen, Anna Barbara 1 whale 65 quardelen, Helena Margareta 1 whale and Gesina Sicilia 2 whales, all the other whalers from Bremen caught none whales. According to the same list caught the 57 whalers of Hamburg, Germany just 23 whales.

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