On this voyage she had captured one American whaler on the way to the whaling grounds.
I was aboard the Carthaginian on the whaling grounds, and the sailors were laughing about Honolulu.
Exploration was initially conducted to find new whaling grounds, but from the 18th century some scientific exploration took place.
After leaving the harbour the whalers either proceeded to the main whaling grounds off southern Labrador, or headed home to the Basque country.
The weary whaling ground (Trad)
For the next two days they pressed on, sailing deeper into the whaling grounds, but without a single sighting of their prey.
Billy gets paid his share when the boat reaches home port, and signs aboard the Cloudy Bay, what is bound for southern whaling grounds.
Naujaat was first visited by Europeans in the 1740s, and by the late 1800s it became a popular whaling ground for American and Scottish whalers.
They were right to turn their attention to southern waters, the Falklands sector of the Antarctic is the richest whaling ground in the world.
The North Pacific was the furthest whaling ground from New England and Europe markets.