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Monday, 21 August 2023

German Greenland whaler returned home with Dutch survivors according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemsche courant dated 18 August 1676

An item dated Bremen, Germany 15 August reported the arrival of a Greenland whaler with 10 whales and the Dutch commandeur Lambert Claesz van Oostzanen [could be his surname of the name of a Dutch whaling village] and 25 men which ship was wrecked. 

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