Logbook and ship's papers of whaling factory ship Ulysses, 1933-1939.
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Ulysses (Whaling factory ship)
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Registered as an American whaling company Dec. 1936. 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. The company was dissolved in the 1950s. From the description of Logbook and ship's papers of whaling factory ship Ulysses, 1933-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 700471873 ...
Western Operating Corporation Ltd.
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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 s...
