176 WHALE-FISHERY. 



The whale-fishers from other ports of the Elbe, 

 have, in general, held a place of some importance^ 

 especially those of Altona, which for many years re- 

 gularly embarked in the trade. In 1SG2, Altona 

 sent out ten ships, which took home only 304 casks of 

 blubber, or 1536 barrels of oil, the produce of 21 

 whales. Eleven ships from Gluckstadt, the same 

 year caught only 24 fish, which afforded 346 casks 

 of blubber, or 3124 barrels of oil. And two ships 

 from the eastern ports procured 8 fish, yielding 508 

 barrels of oil, from 145 casks of blubber*. 



The port of Bremen, in the Weser, sent twelve 

 ships on the fishery in 1697, the united cargoes of 

 which consisted of 3,790 puncheons of blubber ; and 

 in 1721, a fleet of twenty-four ships sailed from the 

 same port. In 1802, the Bremen Greenland fleet 

 consisted of eight ships ; and the same number the 

 following year, which caught 14 whales, producing 

 1250 butts of blubber f. The whale and seal fish- 

 ers from the Elbe and Weser, amounted to 42 

 sail in the year 1817, and were increased to 53 in 

 1818 J. 



* Oddy's European Commerce, p. 420. f Idem, p. 444 



:,M 8 1 7, From Hamburgh, 12 1818, From Hamburgh, 1 3 



Altona, 7 Altona, 9 



Gluckstadt, 12 Gluckstadt, 17 



Bremen, 7 Bremen, S 



4 other Ports, 4 5 other Ports, 6 



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