290 A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



The Dundee Right Whaling Fleet is now reduced 

 to three vessels, which killed respectively five, three, 

 and seven Right Whales, returning with six thousand 

 five hundred, two thousand five hundred, and 

 fourteen thousand pounds of whalebone. 



In 1910 the Norwegian Bottlenose Fleet consisted 

 of forty-two vessels, of which six ships from Tons- 

 berg killed one hundred and fifty-six whales, i.e., 

 twenty-six each; twenty from Sandefjord killed six 

 hundred and fifty-seven whales or thirty-three each ; 

 thirteen from Aalesund killed three hundred and 

 forty-nine whales or twenty-seven each, and three 

 vessels from Stadten which accounted for forty-two 

 whales. Most of these whales were killed at Spits- 

 bergen. In 1909 there were thirty-eight ships, which 

 killed one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight 

 Bottlenose Whales. 



The price realised for whaling products in 1910 

 was excellent. Most of the whale oil made in Japan 

 and Newfoundland was sold to the United States. 

 The world's production of whale oil can be estimated 

 at three hundred thousand casks in 1910. Of this 

 quantity about seventy thousand casks (barrels) was 

 disposed of in Christiania, one hundred thousand 

 casks or barrels were sold in Germany, Holland, and 

 Belgium, and a similar quantity in Glasgow. The 

 average price for quick delivery was forty-four ore 

 (about sixpence) per kilogram. Most of the oil of 

 the following season was sold in advance at 

 Glasgow at twenty-two pounds ten shillings per ton. 



By 1911 it was estimated that over twenty 



