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Friday, 16 September 2011

British whale factory ship Vikingen of Newcastle at Amsterdam, Netherlands April 1930

The ship visited in begin April 1930 Amsterdam, Netherlands to unload a part of her valuable cargo of whale oil. Measurement 15.000 tons


The Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland: staat- en letterkundig nieuwsblad morning edition dated 11 April 1930 published the next news item. The British steamship Vikingen loaded with a cargo of whale oil and coming from South Georgia and although first not intended to visit the Netherlands, arrived this morning at IJmuiden to unload at Amsterdam. She arrived 04.00 o’clock at the site of the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij.

The Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland: staat- en letterkundig nieuwsblad evening edition dated 14 April 1937 supplied more details when the ship again visited the Netherlands. She arrived that that day coming Sandelfjord, South Georgia at the same site as in 1930 loaded with whale oil. BRT was 14.526 tons and her draught 7,9 meter.