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Tuesday, 4 August 2020

British Greenland whaler The Egel in 1730


Commandeur, Dander Gay, catch results 1 whale and 25 barrels. The name of the whaler is more or less English, of the commandeur apparently Dutch, but perhaps they were translated from the English into a Dutch spelling.

Source
Europische Mercurius, October 1730, edition page 213.

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