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Friday, 6 November 2020

Dutch Greenland whaler de Vrouw Hendrina returned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 19 September 1758

Whale cut into pieces circa 1725

Adolf van der Laan after Sieuwert van der Meulen 1720-1730

An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 9 September of the Dutch whaler de Vrouw Hendrina, commandeur Cornelis Jansz Bras, empty, returning from Greenland.(1)

Note

1. Commandeur between 1743-1758 for Claudius Hendrik van Herwerden, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written note until 1794.

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