Founded in 1910 by P. Bogen, Sandefjord and in 1923 transferred to New Zealand. The company started with the whalers Star 1-3 built by the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company and the factory ship Sommerstad. In 1912 factory ship and fast station, since 1913 fast station.
Number of boats 3. Blue whale=Balaenoptera musculus 70, Fin
whale=Balaenoptera physalus and Humpback
whale= Megaptera novaeangliae 235,
Sei whale=Balaenoptera
borealis 0, Spermwhale= Physeter
macrocephalus 0, North Atlantic right whale =Eubalaena glacialis 0,
total number of caught whales 314, number of barrels oil 8.500 and number of bags
guano 0.
Source
Sigurd Risting. Av Hvalfangstens Historie. Kristiania,
1922.
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