A list of Greenland and Davis Straits ships sailing from Holland, from Dr. Lang's book:
Ships at Greenland and Davis Straits, with number of whales killed:
The above list shows how the trade changed in a few years from London to Hull, and it also shows how Scotland increased her fleet, while England reduced hers.
In an old work—"McPherson's Annals of Commerce," is found the following list of ships sent to the whaling:
Whaling was now confined to Dundee Peterhead, and remained so until 1900, when Peterhead sent her last whaler to sea, and since then the industry has been carried on by Dundee alone.
In 1733 a bounty of twenty shillings a ton on ships over two hundred tons was given by the English Government, and in 1749 this was doubled to induce competition with the Dutch.
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