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 4, Fin
whale=Balaenoptera physalus 41, Humpback
whale= Megaptera novaeangliae 7
Sei whale=Balaenoptera
borealis 2, Spermwhale=
Physeter macrocephalus 66, North Atlantic right whale =Eubalaena
glacialis 0, total number of caught whales 120, number of barrels oil 7.731 and
number of bags guano 5.000
Source
Sigurd Risting. Av Hvalfangstens Historie. Kristiania,
1922.
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