- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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Stromness Husvik Grytviken Godthul Ocean Harbour The
whaling stations'
tryworks were
unpleasant and
dangerous places to work. One was
called "a charnel...
- ship
Whaleboat Grindaknívur
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spade Paledang Try pot
Trywork Products Ambergris Ambrein Baleen Blubber Cetyl alcohol Muktuk Scrimshaw...
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whale oil
using two or
three try-pots set in a
brick furnace called the
tryworks. ****ceti was
especially valuable, and as
sperm whaling voyages were...
- ship
Whaleboat Grindaknívur
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spade Paledang Try pot
Trywork Products Ambergris Ambrein Baleen Blubber Cetyl alcohol Muktuk Scrimshaw...
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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...
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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...
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thousand people visited a
complete town with
stalls and streets.
Besides the
tryworks,
smithies and workshops,
there were shops, churches, fortifications, gambling...
