15 Whaling Season 1956/1957


Airmail letter sent from Svarstad 12-13-1956, to Aruba Oranjestad, arrival 18-XI-1956.

Rate, abroad 65 ore, airmail rate 2 x 50 øre, makes total correct rate of 165 øre. Hans H Berg, worked at the floating whale factory "Thorshammer". The letter was sent by airmail to Aruba, where the tanker Ross Sea took fuel oil and mail for Thorshammer and her whalers. After the fuel oil and mail were taken, Ross Sea sailed to the whale grounds, where she would meet "Thorshammer" somewhere between Bouvet Island and the Antarctic continent. After about 4 months Ross Sea returned to Sandefjord.


Whale factory "Thorshammer" Built in 1914 by W. Doxford & Son Ltd, Sunderland, as San Nazerio. Bought in 1928 and converted by Bryde & Dahls Hvalfangerselskap (A / S Thor Dahl) Sandefjord into a walfis factory.



Ross Sea in the NDSM dock in Amsterdam, on the shipyard in 1951. Commissioner, Norwegian Shipping Company: Hvalfanger A / S Rosshavet Sandefjord.

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