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 Nancy captain Upton departed Salem, Massachusetts, USA in 1820 bound for the Falkland Islands and South Shetlands returning back home on 27 May 1822 with 1.800 fur seal skins and 100 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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