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Whaling boat 'Swiftsure' owned by James Jackson

 

Whaling boat 'Swiftsure' owned by James Jackson
The 'Swiftsure' in her days of whaling captured about 60 right whales and 300 humpbacks and earned in money about sixty thousand pounds. She is now stored beside the big whale skeleton in the Canterbury Museum and it can be noticed that her loggerhead is very worn by the continual fraction of the rope.

 
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