A trywork, located aft of the fore-mast, is the most distinguishing feature of a whaling ship. It is a furnace, typically constructed of brick and attached...

trywork, a brick furnace and set of try pots built into the deck. In the 18th- and 19th-century New England whaling industry, the use of the trywork allowed...

Stromness Husvik Grytviken Godthul Ocean Harbour The whaling stations' tryworks were unpleasant and dangerous places to work. One was called "a charnel...

expeditions, the trying-out was done aboard the ship in a furnace known as a trywork and the carcass was then discarded into the water. Baleen whales were a...

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whale oil using two or three try-pots set in a brick furnace called the tryworks. Spermaceti was especially valuable, and as sperm whaling voyages were...

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Hiller (b. 1798). His father was a master blacksmith who had invested in a tryworks and bought two ships. They had nine children of which James was the second...

them built at the shipyard of Mattapoisett. The invention of on-board tryworks, a system of massive iron pots over a brick furnace, allowed the whalers...

thousand people visited a complete town with stalls and streets. Besides the tryworks, smithies and workshops, there were shops, churches, fortifications, gambling...

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whaling around 1860. A tryworks for boiling down the blubber was built inside Kiah Inlet, possibly on the site of an earlier tryworks, where whales could...

catch bowhead whales, which were towed ashore and processed at a nearby tryworks. The Russian-American Company has been appraised as being run with "poorly...

deconstructed in 1968, and put up at the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen. Two trywork for boiling whale blubber existed on the island before 1660; they were...

A reconstruction of the tryworks used for producing whale oil, including the distinctive clay tiles found on the site...

Australia's first shore-based whaling station was established in Ralph's Bay at Trywork(s) Point. It was in operation by 27 September 1805 when the Rev Knopwood...

converted to a whaling ship. The refit included the installation of a trywork, an on-board pair of trypots used to render blubber into whale oil. In...

temporary whaling stations to process the whale blubber into oil. The tryworks were built close to the shore facing the harbor. They consisted of up to...

stations had large kettles for rendering whale blubber into Whale oil, called tryworks. California's migrating whales were hunted in small boats from the station...

the crew butcher an enormous whale and render the oil in the burning tryworks. Flask tells Ahab of the search for Pip, but Ahab thinks only of finding...

established of any size until the 1950s. The station had as many as nine tryworks, some having a single furnace, others having two. To the west of these...

blubber into chunks on deck to be rendered of whale oil on the ship's tryworks. Next, Jed is allowed on the tiller of a whaleboat. Captain Joy watches...

Massachusetts, United States, Couza was one of the early musicians at Tryworks Coffeehouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In those days he played a well...

took over the area. In 1619 the Dutch replaced the tents and temporary tryworks on Amsterdam Island with permanent structures of wood and brick, in what...

bark-rigged, 116-feet long, each carrying two whaleboats and equipped with steam tryworks and powerful winches to bring aboard large strips of blubber when flensing...

they were flensed on the beach and their blubber rendered into oil at a tryworks on the point. A chartered vessel from Nikolayevsk took aboard the oil and...

Pilot's Beach was formerly known as 'Hobart Town Beach' from the whaling tryworks established there in 1836 by the Weller brothers employing men from Hobart...

only consisted of a tent of sails, a thatched cook house, and a small tryworks. Sixteen men, eight from each ship, were given provisions for two months...

before as she was boiling oil and the smoke was going in volleys from her tryworks. The whales were going as nearly as fast as the ship so we kept pace with...

recently built whaling museum, with a restored fully equipped whaling boat, tryworks, a collection of harpoons, models, scrimshaw and artefacts from the whalers...