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Thursday 14 February 2013

Arrival of the Dutch Greenland whalers Rotterdam and Liefde at Hellevoetsluis on 29 August according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 6 September 1759

An item dated Hellevoetsluis, 2 September reported that on 29 August arrived the Rotterdam commandeur Ph. Walrave ½ whale, 20 barrels of whale blubber and de Liefde commandeur Maarten de Mile, 5 whales, 200 barrels of whale blubber, both returning from Greenland.