Several German Greenland whalers prepared for new season according to he Dutch newspaper Amsterdamsche courant dated 17 March 1803

An item dated Hamburg, Germany 10^th reported that around the spring several whalers from the Elbe-Weser area would depart for Greenland for whale and seal hunting. Hamburg would sent 14, Altona 9, Gluckstadt 12, 3 from the east, one of Stade and 9 of Bremen.