Stripping sea-elephant blubber and rolling it in barrels to try-works southwest beach of Herd’s Island
Drawing by H.W. Elliott after captain H.C. Chester
The American sealing
ship Lydia of 160 tons captain McCleave left Nantucket, USA for Patagonia on 16
May 1815 returning home on 10 March 1816 with 1.012 barrels sea elephant oil.
Source
The Fisheries and
Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V. Vol II. George Brown Goode,
Washington, 1887.
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