WHALING FACTORY SHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 234, 3 October 1932, Page 3

WHALING FACTORY SHIP.

ONLY ONE TO CALL THIS SEASON. Owing -to the curtailing of whaling due to over-supply of whale oil, the Norwegian vessel, the Sir James Clark Boss, is understood to be the only whaling factory ship to call at New Zealand this season. She is due in Wellington on Sunday next. After taking in water and stores she will leave again the following afternoon for Stewart Island, to pick up her chasers, thence to the whaling grounds. No men will be required in New Zealand. Captain 0. Nilsen, who served in the old Sir James Clark Ross and the C. A. Larsen, retains command of the vessel. The Sir James Clark Ross visited Wellington last in October, 1030, on her maiden voyage to the Ross Sea, and was launched in April of that year from the Haverton-Hill-on-Tees yards of the Furness Shipbuilding Company for the Bosshavet Whaling Co., Sandefjord, Norway. She is a motor vessel, sooft in length, and 74ft 3£in in breadth, with a gross tonnage of 14,362, and a carrying capacity of over 20,000 tons. She carries a crew of over 200, and also has provision for the crews of the chasers. The vessel preserves the name of the company's pioneer whaler, Sir James Clark Ross, which was converted into a whaler in 1922, and given the name of the famous discoverer of the Ross Sea. The veteran whaler, a single-screw steamer of 8224 tons gross, was built 27 years ago at Belfast by Harland and Wolff, Ltd., for the Brockelbank Line, of Liverpool, and spent most of her sea life in the Indian trade as the Makronda.