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Monday, 7 December 2020

Dutch Greenland whaler de St. Andries returned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 8 August 1758

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands

Harpooned whale dives circa 1725

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

An item dated Texel, Netherlands 31 July reported the arrival on 29 July of the Dutch

An item reported the arrival at Texel, Netherlands on 31 July of the Dutch whaler de St. Andries, commandeur Laurens Symons Quast, empty, returning from Greenland.  

Note

1. Or Lourens Simonsz Qast, commandeur between 1734-1758, in 1758 for Arnold Hooghart, 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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