Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador
Artist/Maker Whitman, Nicholas* American, b. 1954
Title

Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador

Date1998
MediumGiclee Print
Dimensions24 × 53 7/8 in. (61 × 136.8 cm)
Object number2007.6.2
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionPanoramic photograph of the shore whaling station at Hawke Harbour, Labrador. Photographer Nicholas Whitman visited the sight of the abandoned modern whaling station at Hawke Harbor, Labrador in 1998. Labrador Whaling and Manufacturing Co., Ltd. built the station in 1905. Christian Salvesen of Leith, Scotland, took it over in 1938 and added the Antarctic catcher-boat Sluga to the Hawke Harbor fleet in 1946. This vessel was built in 1929 by Smith's Dock, Ltd., Middlesbrough, UK and whaled in the Antarctic with the floating-factory New Sevilla for the Sevilla Whaling Company, Ltd., of Leith, also under the management of Chr. Salvesen. Sluga was shifted to the Royal Navy as a corvette during World War II and was added to the fleet at Hawke Harbor after the war. After one season she struck on a shoal near Battle Harbor, was salvaged, and towed to Hawke Harbor for scrapping where Whitman photographed her hulk. Salvesen closed the Hawke Harbor station in 1952.
On View
On view
Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador,
Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador,
Sluga
1998
Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador,
Whaling Station, Hawke Harbour, Labrador,
Whitman, Nicholas*
1998
Image Not Available for Untitled
Untitled
2001.100.11165_Box List.pdf
KWM Loose Manuscript Collection
1725-1960
Image Not Available for Transcript of a logbook of the Southern Venturer (Factory ship) of Leith, mastered by Hjalmar Nilsen, kept by John Broughton, on voyage from 28 October 1945-21 May 1946
Transcript of a logbook of the Southern Venturer (Factory ship) of Leith, mastered by Hjalmar Nilsen, kept by John Broughton, on voyage from 28 October 1945-21 May 1946
1945-1946
Image Not Available for Antarctic Whaling
Antarctic Whaling
Salvesen, Capt. Harold
1928 -1955
Image Not Available for Antarctic Whaling
Antarctic Whaling
Salvesen, Capt. Harold
1928 -1955
Image Not Available for Antarctic Whaling
Antarctic Whaling
Salvesen, Capt. Harold
1928 -1955
Image Not Available for KWM Whaling History Symposiums
KWM Whaling History Symposiums
2001.100.2312
Rigged model: Salvesen catcher-boat SCAPA of Leith
1924
Image Not Available for Photographs of Labrador by Robert E. Peabody in the collection of Julia S. Emlen, Providence RI. Collection of photographs of vessels, outport communities, local residents, and a whaling operation.
Photographs of Labrador by Robert E. Peabody in the collection of Julia S. Emlen, Providence RI. Collection of photographs of vessels, outport communities, local residents, and a whaling operation.
Peabody, Robert E.
Image Not Available for Plans for the Hawke Harbour Whaling Station
Plans for the Hawke Harbour Whaling Station

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