Whaling in Greenland
Date
4 November 1663
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p308
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 350mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Description
Drawing illustrating the process of whaling in Greenland, reported from a 'Mr Gray' of the Greenland company at the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 November 1663.
Transcription
We have according to the bignesse or smalnesse of our ships the more or fewer Boats: a shop of 200 tuns, may man six boats, A vessel of 80 or 100 tuns, 4 boats.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 November 1663, ‘The history of whale-fishing, and of the making of whale-oil, was delivered in by the secretary from Mr. Gray of the Greenland company, who had been in those parts, and present at the killings of whales and the making of oil a dozen times; and was ordered to be registered' (Birch 1:324). The text is printed in 1:324-27.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place