’WARE WHALE!—A harpoon gunner, crouched ready to adminster the death-blow to a whale. In the old days the creatures were caught by means of a hand harpoon. The harpoon gun teas invented in 1868 by Mr. Svend Foyn, of Toensberg. and totally revolutionised the whaling industry, as the old method of whaleboat and hand harpoon teas very inefficient against the swift and dangerous “fin” whales.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 19
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65’WARE WHALE!—A harpoon gunner, crouched ready to adminster the death-blow to a whale. In the old days the creatures were caught by means of a hand harpoon. The harpoon gun teas invented in 1868 by Mr. Svend Foyn, of Toensberg. and totally revolutionised the whaling industry, as the old method of whaleboat and hand harpoon teas very inefficient against the swift and dangerous “fin” whales. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 19
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