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- A trywork is a furnace, used to heat blubber from whales for the recovery of oil, on a whaling ship. The trywork is located aft of the fore-mast, and is...
- trywork, a brick furnace and set of try pots built into the deck. In the 18th- and 19th-century New England whaling industry, the use of the trywork allowed...
- Stromness Husvik Grytviken Godthul Ocean Harbour The whaling stations' tryworks were unpleasant and dangerous places to work. One was called "a charnel...
- expeditions, the trying-out was done aboard the ship in a furnace known as a trywork and the carc**** was then discarded into the water. Baleen whales were a...
- immigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s and in 1967 took on the running of Tryworks Coffee House, a hub of folk music and culture in New Bedford, MA.[citation...
- whaling around 1860. A tryworks for boiling down the blubber was built inside Kiah Inlet, possibly on the site of an earlier tryworks, where whales could...
- Hiller (b. 1798). His father was a master blacksmith who had invested in a tryworks and bought two ships. They had nine children of which James was the second...
- them built at the shipyard of Mattapoisett. The invention of on-board tryworks, a system of m****ive iron pots over a brick furnace, allowed the whalers...
- ship Whaleboat Grindaknívur Harpoon cannon Head spade Paledang Try pot Trywork Products Ambergris Ambrein Baleen Blubber Cetyl alcohol Muktuk Scrimshaw...
- converted to a whaling ship. The refit included the installation of a trywork, an on-board pair of trypots used to render blubber into whale oil. In...