An item mentioned that ship brokers H. van Keuien, W. de Vries, H. Planter, A. Kramp, J. Opmeer en G. de Myn sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 12 October 1767 th extra ordinary sailing fluytship het Stadhuis van Amsterdam, commandeur Fredrik Akkerman, built in 1733, length 116 Amsterdam feet, 4,200 guilders, stroke 200 guilders, D. Huysman.(1)
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1. Fredrik Luppen Ackerman, Greenland commandeur between 1755-1759 and 1768-1770 and Davis Strait commandeur between 1761-1767 for Pieter Clockener, Amsterdam, in 1767 zero results. 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.
Source
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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