SOVIET WHALERS CALL
FIRST VISIT TO HONOLULU. HUNTING IN BEHRING SEA. Honolulu, Dec. 1. Whaling vessels visited Honolulu yesterday for the first time in many years when a fleet of four Soviet ships en route from Leningrad, whence they sailed on July 26 to Vladivostock for duty in the Behring Sea, came into port flying the red flag. The vessels were commanded by Captain Leonty Burghardt and carry 186 comrades, including several women and four American .negroes as cooks.. The flotilla will. remain in the harbour for a few days before continuing the voyage. The mother ship, now named the Eleut, was the former American freighter Glen Ridge, built in. Baltimore in 1919 and purchased two years ago by the Soviet Government. The vessel was converted into a floating whale-oil factory in the Soviet shops at Leningrad-
The three smaller vessels, the Enthusiast, Avongard and Trudfront, are manned by 18 men each. They will hunt for whales and bring them to the larger ship. On the cruise from Panama to Honolulu 22 whales were captured.
The flotilla is owned and controlled by the Far East Fishing Society, and Andred Poplov, managing director,. is accompanying the ships.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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