Western Operating Corporation records, 1933-1953.

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Western Operating Corporation records, 1933-1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129642

Business records of a twentieth century whaling enterprise including account books, agreements, log books, stock holder record books, crew accounts, whale reports, stranding statements, newspaper clippings, statements of general average, survey reports, cashbooks, charts, blueprints, letters, lists of Norwegian crew members, and photographs.

9 linear ft.

Penobscot Marine Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8076432

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Charles Racine (Ship)

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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 ...

Carver, Clifford N. (Clifford Nickels), 1890-1965

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Resident of Searsport, Me.; author of Carver Family of New England: Robert Carver of Marshfield and His Descendants (1935) which relates to the Carver and allied families of Maine and Massachusetts. From the description of Clifford N. Carver papers, ca. 1900?-1965? (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 672383493 Clifford Nickles Carver (Princeton Class of 1913) served as secretary (1914-1915) to Walter H. Page, the American ambassador in London, as secretar...

Janus (Ship : 1809-1831)

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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...