“Peche a la Baleine dans les mers du Sud.” The whale’s huge fluke has sliced through a whaleboat, throwing the crew into the sea. Five survivors from another whaleboat struggle in the sea. The lithograph is by the French painter, Louis Le Breton, the artist on Dumont D’Urville’s second voyage to New Zealand in 1837-40. As many as sixteen whaling ships, all subsidised by the French Government, were working waters round New Zealand in the late 1830s. The illustration is reproduced in “Sealers and Whalers in New Zealand Waters,” reviewed today.
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91“Peche a la Baleine dans les mers du Sud.” The whale’s huge fluke has sliced through a whaleboat, throwing the crew into the sea. Five survivors from another whaleboat struggle in the sea. The lithograph is by the French painter, Louis Le Breton, the artist on Dumont D’Urville’s second voyage to New Zealand in 1837-40. As many as sixteen whaling ships, all subsidised by the French Government, were working waters round New Zealand in the late 1830s. The illustration is reproduced in “Sealers and Whalers in New Zealand Waters,” reviewed today. Press, 14 March 1987, Page 23
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