An item mentioned that shipbrokers sold in ‘t Nieuwezys Heeren Loogement, Amsterdam on 9 October 1780 an extra ordinary set of whaling tools of commandeur Dirk Claasen for 3,700 Dutch guilders to J. Vis. (1)
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1. Dirk Klaasz, Greenland commandeur between 1760-1780 for Dirk Jansen junior, Amsterdam, 1780: 1 whale-35 barrels blubber-55.5 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.
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, October1780 1st part.
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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