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Thursday, 19 May 2022

The results of the German whalers according to the Dutch newspaper Oprechte Haerlemsche courant dated 22 October 1750

An item dated  Hamburg, Germany 17 October reported that all German Greenland whalers returned excluded commandeur Booy Cornelisz 1 whale of Hamburg, with a total result for the 13 remaining whalers of Hamburg of 19 whales, 2 whalers of Altona returned with 7 whales, the third one of Roelof Jansse with 5 whales lost and 3 whalers of Bremen including Jan H. Adingh, with totally 10 whales, were the total results of the 18 whalers 36 whales 1,448 barrels blubber

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