Early whalers, sperm whales - page 1
Whales and Whaling pictures, thumbnails page 1  - page 2 -   - page 3 -   - page 4 -

Pictures from the early days of commercial whaling, the species hunted and how they were processed. Click the image for a larger version, click the text to go to an information page.

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Greenland Fishery

New Bedford, Massachusetts, whaling vessels

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Deck of a whaler showing try-works

The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus

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The Cachalot

The Nantucket Sleigh Ride

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Lancing a whale

The whales revenge and firing a bomb lance

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Sperm whale biting

A ten mile steady pull to windward

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The vast flukes of the whale shore off the bow of the attacking boat

Shore processing of spermaceti

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Whaling schooner Amelia, of New Bedford, Massachusetts

Whaling schooner deckplan

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Outboard flensing

Bringing the case aboard

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Right whale bringing the head and whalebone aboard

Bailing the case, sperm whale

Early whaling - page 2
Whales and Whaling pictures, thumbnails page 2  - page 1 -   - page 3 -   - page 4 -

Pictures from the early days of commercial whaling, the species hunted and how they were processed. Click the image for a larger version, click the text to go to an information page.

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Cutting in, cutting diagrams for flensing sperm and bowhead whales

Fastened to the whale by harpoon and line, firing a bomb lance

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Hoisting aboard the whalebone from a right whale

The whale's tail

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The baleen plates

Hand harpoons

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Bowhead and Pacific Right Whales

Sulphur bottom whales

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Spanning

Crow's nest

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Azores whalers harpooning a sperm whale

Azores whalers moving in to lance a sperm whale

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Blackfish or Pilot Whales stranded at Cape Cod

Blackfish, Pilot Whales stranded at Thurso Scotland

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Cutting in a Humpback whale, shore station

Long Island, whale processing

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Whale upper jaw and baleen plates

Whale and whaler before crowd

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Whaling Station, Gray's Harbor, Washington

Sperm Whaling Industry, Durban South Africa