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Sunday, 9 January 2022

British capturing Dutch Greenland whalers according to the Dutch newspaper Ommelander courant dated 9 August 1803

An item referred to the arrival on 31st July of captain H. Laarman in het Vlie, Netherlands coming from Memel [nowadays Klaipeda, Lithuania]. He spoke on the 27th on the Weser a Danish Greenland who told him that in the Tregter [English Channel?] the British captured 3 Dutch Greenland whalers one of which had a catch of 6 whales (one of 100 and 2 of 80 quardelen).

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