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 58, Fin
whale=Balaenoptera physalus 40, Humpback
whale= Megaptera novaeangliae 28,
Sei whale=Balaenoptera
borealis 8 ,Spermwhale= Physeter
macrocephalus 52 North Atlantic right whale =Eubalaena glacialis 0,
total number of caught whales 185, number of barrels oil 9.333 and number of
bags guano 6.640
Source
Sigurd Risting. Av Hvalfangstens Historie. Kristiania,
1922.
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