Western Operating Corporation Ltd.
Biographical notes:
Registered as an American whaling company Dec. 1936. Clifford N. Carver, president, was also a founder of Penobscot Marine Museum. The corporation used the Ulysses, a tanker built in Baltimore in 1915 and converted to a whaling factory ship in 1937, with 8 catcher boats and a Norwegian crew of over 300 to hunt whales off the coast of western Australia in 1937 and 1938. Proctor and Gamble, the buyer for the whale oil, would not guarantee a contract, so the Ulysses resumed tanker service and was sold in 1942. The company was dissolved in the 1950s.
From the description of Western Operating Corporation records, 1933-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71129642
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- Voyages and travels
- Whalers (Persons)
- Whaling
- Whaling ships
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- Australia (as recorded)
- Norway (as recorded)
