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 sealing ship Commerce captain Eldridge departed in 1804 from Nantucket, USA towards the Pacific Ocean returning home on 15 February 1806 fully loaded with sea elephant oil. Her captain died underway in 1804.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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