- In the 18th and 19th
century New
England whaling industry, the use of
tryworks on
whaling ships allowed them to stay at sea longer.
Since they
could boil...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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catch bowhead whales,
which were
towed as**** and
processed at a
nearby tryworks. The Russian-American
Company has been
appraised as
being run with "poorly...
