Stripping sea-elephant blubber and rolling it in barrels to try-works Soutwest beach, Herd’s Island. Drawing by H.W. Elliott after captan H.C. Chester.
The American sealing
brig Hersilia departed Stonington, Connecticut, USA in fall 1820 as part of a
fleet bound for the South Shetlands most of the ships returning back home in
1821 with a total catch of 88.000 fur seal skins and 1.008 barrels sea elephant
oil.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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