The whale boat, kept pointed out to sea with lines to the rafts, prevented drifting onto the enemy held shore.
The volunteers take one trip per day in the whale boats, collecting the data needed for the research program.
He also had them load themselves and the whale boats back onto their transport vessels.
On January 21, 1862 a party set out from Auckland heading northward along the east coast in a whale boat.
They took the biggest catches ago' the season and not a jack tar among them were lost overboard or killed in a whale boat.'
He now had 13 men, two whale boats and a purchased umiak.
Of the 10 people in the whale boat attempting to navigate heavy surf, 5 were drowned.
Great excitement ensues and the whale boats are lowered.
Again, and before the schooner called in, he got away, this time in a whale boat accompanied by a case of the trader's tobacco.
Some of the whale boats were used for ferry services on the Swan River.
