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- of the deck. In the 18th and 19th century New England whaling industry, tryworks on whaling ships allowed the vessels to stay at sea longer as it allowed...
- 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...
- 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...
- the crew butcher an enormous whale and render the oil in the burning tryworks. Flask tells Ahab of the search for Pip, but Ahab thinks only of finding...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- stations had large kettles for rendering whale blubber into Whale oil, called tryworks. California's migrating whales were hunted in small boats from the station...