Whale ships in the nineteenth century required provisions and outfits for at least three years. The list here is taken from Charles M. Scammon’s The marine mammals of the north-western …
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“… an enormous whale, which had apparently fallen asleep…”
An anonymous account of a whale in King’s Lynn’s water
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Port of Kings Lynn 11th April 1867 Some …
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Thomas Southwell FZS V-P
From Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 1908
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Steve Worfolk’s map of The Friar’s 1905
Drawn in 2001, shows the river Nar and it’s environs, as it probably was, with his family’s boat yard, the Blubber House and …
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