An item mentioned that ship brokers W. de Vries, D. van Schorrenberg, H. Moens and T. Beth Ysbrandsz sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 12 October 1767 the extra ordinary sailing fluytship de Soete Naam, commandeur Jan Strop, built in 1754, length 110 Amsterdam feet, 11,800 guilders, stroke 1,100, G. Clifford.(1)
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1. Jan Cornelisz Strop, Greenland commandeur 1733-1767, 1767 for Joannes van Wayenburg, Amsterdam 1 whale-45 barrels blubber-63 quardelen whale oil. 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 notes until 1794.
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De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, October part 1, Amsterdam, 1767.
People in the 17th and 18th centuries held a different geographical view than people today. This means that when we speak of “Greenland whaling”, “the term “Greenland” actually refers to Svalbard, whereas “Davis Strait” refers to whaling off the coast of present-day Greenland. The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.
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