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Enclosure in No. 28.
LIST OF WHAling LicenceS ISSUED FOR THE DEPENDENCY OF THE SOUTH SHETLANDS AND GRAHAM'S LAND FOR THE 1913-14 SEASON.
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LIST OF WHALING LICENCES issued FOR THE DEPENDENCY OF THE SOUTH ORKNEYS FOR THE 1913-14 SEASON.
License.
Licensee.
Name of Vessel,
Type of Vessel.
Number and dimensions of presaurs boilers,
of approximately. Licence.
Num- bur
Kame of Vassel.
Type of Vessel.
Number and Nom. dimensions of ber pressure boilers, approximately. Licence.
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1. Pacific Whaling Co., San- Not yet known
defjord.
Do.
Floating factory Whale catcher
1. Aktieselskabet "Hvalen,”
Christiania,
"Hvalen"
Floating factory
8, 10' x 8'
37
Do.
Whale catchier
"Minerva "
Whale catcher
37
"Flamme"
Do.
"Dantas Bareto
2 Southern Whaling Co., "Svend Foyn
Sandefjord.
"Graham "
Whale catcher
Floating factory
Whale catcher
37
3rd whale catcher
6, 8' x 8'
"Doris "
Whale catcher
No. Do
"Norrona I," Not yet known
3rd whale catcher
...
Additional floating fac-
12, 10' x 7'
3888*2
25
30
30
30
18
4. Rethval
12
3. Ornen Co., Sandefjord ..
Do.
"Orn" "Hauken "Grib" "Havorn"
tory, subject to appro- val of the Secretary of State.
Floating factory
*
5. Thule Whaling Co., Chris-
tiania.
"Thule"
2. Hektor Whaling Co., Tons- "Ronald"
berg.
3. Haugesund Whaling Co., Not yet known
Haugesund.
Whaling Co.,
Christiania.
Do,
Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher Floating factory
"Port Stanley
"Bransfield"
Do. "Falkland" "Palmer"
Powell
11
"Dove"
Whale catcher ...
8. 6' x 8'
24
Not yet known
19
Whale catcher
Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher
Ornen & Nor Companies
Not yet known
Additional floating fac-
12, 10' x 7'
મકર્મ
24
24
6. Coronation Whaling Co.,
Sandefjord.
富临
Tirje Viken"
Whale catcher... Floating factory, subject
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8, 10' x 8'
36
6, 8' x 8'
6, 8' x 8'
388889828
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14
to approval of the Secretary of State, to be utilized without a whale catcher.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
TC.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED' PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
8, 10' x 8'
No. 29.
MEMORANDUM ON THE QUESTION OF A POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT FOR THE LIMITATION OF THE NUMBER OF WHALING VESSELS.
In the British Isles there are about eleven licensed whaling steamers. In the Dominions there are about sixty, of which South Africa accounts for twenty-four. Both South Africa and Australia may be regarded as committed to allow this number to be increased. We do not know the proportion of these steamers which is owned by Norwegians, but it must be considerable. As regards the Colonies not possessing responsible government, there are in the Falkland Islands and their dependencies sixty-six licensed whaling steamers, of which twelve are British-owned, forty-seven Norwegian, four Argentine, and three Chilian. Three steamers will be licensed for St. Helena. There are also some whaling rights for the waters of uninhabited islands in the South Indian Ocean, but it appears that no whaling has actually been done there.
4. Nor
Co., Kamfjord, Christiania.
"Bombay "Neb*
1
"Gyas "
Do.
Klo"
"Neko
11
£4
Scapa
"Silva "
"Sonja
11
5. Salvesen & Co., 29, Ber-
nard Street, Leith.
Do. Do.
6. Laboremus Co., San-
defjord.
Do.
7. Norge Whaling
Larvik.
Co.,
Do. Do.
8. Sociedad Ballenera de Ma-
gallanes, Punta Arenas.
Do.
9. Odd Whaling Co., San-
defjord.
Do,
10 Hektor Whaling Co.,
Tonsberg.
Do. Do.
" Horatio"
"Roald Amundsen". "Kanon
"Granat "
"Harpun "1
"Solatreif"
"Eik"
"Bok**
"Bjerk
Not yet known
"Gobernador Bories" "Almirante Goni" "Almirante
zuela."
tory, subject to appro- val of the Secretary of State.
Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher ... 3rd whale catcher
8, 6'x8'
32
32
32
19
21097
4, 8' x 8'
27
27
27
15
Additional floating fac-
2
12, 10' x 7'
16
Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher
tory, subject to appro- val of the Secretary of Stata.
Floating factory Whale catcher Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher
Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher
Additional floating fac-
tory.
Floating factory Whale catcher
Valen-Whale catcher
"Almirante Uribe ". "Sobraon"
"Odd II." "Ole Wegger "Hval" "Ronald " "Port Stanley' "Bransfield ". "T. H. Dahl " "Hektoria" "Edle" Ross
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3rd whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher ... Whale catcher 3rd whale catcher Floating factory Whale catcher
Whale catcher
3rd whale catcher
Floating factory and 2
whale catchers em-
The licensee shail have installed on board the "
14, 9' x 4'
33
¡ 33
20
See footnote."
24
6, 8' x 8'
38
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26
14, 8' x 8'
31
8, 10' x 8'
35
35
35
4, 10' x 8'
ployed
under the
Company's
Jeare at
Deception Island.
18, 12' x 8't
Shore factory
"suficient pressure boilers for dealing with an average
catch of one blue whale or its equivalent per diem during a period of 44 months.
† Eighteen more of same size to be erected during 1913-14 season.
There are, accordingly, about one hundred and forty whaling steamers licensed in the British Empire, and of these more than one-half are known to be foreign-owned.
The foreign countries with the largest numbers of licensed vessels are the United States, Japan, and Portugal. The United States, with Alaska, has about fifteen steam and twenty-four sail. Japan has thirty steamers, the maximum under her municipal law. Portugal has at least twenty, mostly in Angola, and including a few British-owned vessels. Chili has at least five, Mexico about four, France three, in the French Congo, while two companies are being formed for German South-West Africa. Denmark has a few employed in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. If Norway has any employed in her home waters, the number is very small; but it will, of course, be borne in mind that she is the principal owner of steam whalers employed abroad. She possesses one hundred and sixty-nine in all.
It will be seen that the number of whaling vessels employed in foreign countries is at least seventy-seven steamers, besides twenty-four sailing vessels of some size.
As there are about one hundred and forty vessels employed in the British Empire. compared with about one hundred employed in foreign countries taken together, and as the British Empire is, after Norway, the largest owner of such vessels, His Majesty's Government will find some awkwardness in approaching the Powers with