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Sunday, 5 July 2026

Dutch Greenland commandeurs Adriaen Claesz Mosterman and commandeur Meindert Claesz Calckman discussing who killed the whale in 1660

Statement dated 21 September 1660 by several crew members of the Greenland whaler Catwijck op Zee on behalf of their commandeur Adriaen Claesz Mosterman that when they harpooned a whale commandeur Meindert Claesz Calckman was also with his whaler on the same spot claiming that he killed the whale.

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Stadsarchief Rotterdam. Notary Bartolomeus Roose 18-694-68

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