Several British and probably Dutch and German whalers lost in the ice off Greenland according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche courant dated 4 July 1787

An item reported dated Hamburg 29 June reported the arrival of the German commandeur Hans Carl 112 quardelen seal blubber returning from Greenland leaving the 73 degrees on 15 June. He spoke off Greenland commandeur J. Holm of Altona who left the south ice on 10 July. There were begin July more as 100 ships stuck in the south ice and just 10 whales by ships of Hamburg (2), England (3) and the Netherlands (2) in the loose ice caught. The wind was continuous east and south east en begin that same month there had been a lot of fog and heavy swell. There were 8 English, 2 Dutch and one ship of Glückstadt lost in Greenland. Captain Sluiter confirmed when he arrived at Glückstadt this story although adding that finally the ships were able to go around the North or arriving in the frozen icefields. According to Sluiter were 10 British whalers and 6 seal hunters and a ship of Dunkirk with 2 whales lost, he did not mentioned the 2 Dutch ships or the one from Glückstadt