German Greenland seal hunters and their catch results according to the Dutch newspaper Amsterdamse courant dated 12 July 1760

An item dated Hamburg, Germany 8 July reported that on 5 July arrived J. Schroder of Gluckstadt with 162 quardelen and Michien Jansen with 226 quardel seal blubber returning from Greenland. The latter departed from73.5 degrees on 17 June. He stated that commandeur Hendrik R. Schol in Greenland informed him that he sighted on his outward bound voyage a quite damaged Dutch Davis Strait whaler. He expected that she would return, her commandeur was named Jansen. Further more arrived commandeur Th. Pieters with 106 quardelen seal blubber wo left on 16 June the ice on 72.5 degrees with his son Pieter Theunis with 127 quardelen seal blubber. Pieter Theunisz however was on 24 June off the south coast of Hitland [Shetland Isles] by a French privateer of 14 guns and 150 men pretending that she was a British ship and sent her to Dunkirk. His father was forced to take over 21 crew members except for the commandeur, first mate and some officers who were kept in captivity. The French privateer intended to stay in the region for some weeks chasing for British Greenland whalers just like another 2 privateers did. Th. Pieters said that on 16 May on 73 degrees 34 whalers of the Netherlands and Hamburg passed and which 2 days later had to deal with a south wind. Around 3 or 4 June he had been on 76 degrees where the ice was ‘very small’, on 26 June he saw there an unknown fluyt in the north