Stripping sea-elephant blubber and rolling it in barrels to try-works southwest beach of Herd’s Island
Drawing by H.W. Elliott after captain H.C. Chester
The American sealer Alliance captain Gardneer left Nantucket, USA for Patagonia in 1803 returning home on 14 April 1804 fully loaded with sea elephant oil. In April 1805 she returned again fully loaded with 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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