An
item reported that in the Elbe and Weser area in 1791 62 whalers and
seal hunters were to be sent towards Greenland namely Hamburg 35,
Altona 9, Glückstadt 11, Bremen 6 and Vegesack and further more were
2 ships fitted out at Bremen to be sent to the Davis Strait.
Source
Algemene
Konst- en Letter-Bode. Haarlem, Netherlands, 1791.