What is "whalers"

Usage examples of "whalers".

No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.

American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in the after part of the ship.

In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew.

Though, to be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there.

So, then, we see that of all ships separately sailing the sea, the whalers have most reason to be sociable--and they are so.

I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.

The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.

The whalers were long gone, but they still served a mean seafood dinner in the basement restaurant at the John Cofflin House.

Blackfish, the type that had been the staple of inshore whaling in New England before they were hunted out and the big whalers began to sail to Hawaii and Kamchatka.

I have been serving on board whalers I have seen icebergs off Cape Horn.

Ryan saw him look again at the table of whalers, and thought he caught a slight nod from one of them.

Paul, for whalers and fishing-vessels went there constantly, and must have heard of it.