Lines are later used to transfer the whales from the whale catcher to the factory ship.

When whales are spotted the whale catchers will engage in pursuit.

It probably derives from the Svip, a whale catcher operating in the area at that time.

Each caught whale is secured to the side of a whale catcher with rope.

During the 2009-10 season, the Japanese fleet included a factory ship, four whale catchers and two security patrol vessels.

Together with the steam-powered whale catcher, this development ushered in the modern age of commercial whaling.

Exhibits include Southern Actor, a restored whale catcher built in 1950, which is now a museum ship open to the public.

In 1922 the whale catcher Graham passed through the channel separating it from the mainland, proving its insularity.

The barter scheme eventually failed, but the Canadian Navy had already ordered the whale catchers.

The former includes the whale catcher - a steam or diesel-driven vessel with a harpoon gun mounted at its bow.

Corvette design was based on a commercial whale catcher, its primary attribute being ease of construction as an emergency wartime anti-submarine weapon.

Named for the whale catcher Ravn, based at Deception Island at that time.

It was named in about 1912, presumably after the whale catcher Fortuna, and is notable for two major events in the 20th Century.

This is understandable since seiners and whale catchers arc driven by diesel engines that must sound ominously alike.

Improvements in technology such as the world's first diesel-powered whale catcher, the Seki Maru, also increased the capacity to take whales.

In January and February 1931 several Norwegian whale catchers explored along this coast, making sketches of the land from their vessels.

At first, whale catchers either brought the whales they killed to a whaling station or factory ship anchored in a sheltered bay or inlet.

Foyn constructed his 86-ton, seven-knot Spes et Fides, the first steam-powered whale catcher.

Later, with the development of the slipway at the ship's stern, whale catchers were able to transfer their catch to factory ships operating in the open sea.

Essentially the same islands were observed in 1931 by the crew of the Norwegian whale catcher Thorgaut, who gave them the name "Thorgautoyane".

It was named by Norwegian whalers after the Hercules (or Herkules), a whale catcher which had visited the bay.

The six whale catchers and the two factory ships were pressed into British naval service, after their owners transferred them to the British registry.

It would be mounted on the bow of a whale catcher, where it could be easily aimed with a wide field of view at the target.

By 1905 there were eight companies operating around Spitsbergen and Bear Island, while seven (using fifteen whale catchers) were there in 1906-07.