Check out our store under the "Boats Sailing Nautical" category for other similar items and save on shipping!  Estate sale find, vintage original copy of Reponse d'un Capitaine au Long-Cours Baleinier, ‘a M. Jeremiah Winslow, Armateur Naturalise. Loosely translated: Response from a Captain to the Long-Distance Whaling Vessel to Mr. Jeremiah Winslow Shipowner Naturalized A cursory internet search indicates that Jeremiah Winslow was a noted whaler operating out of France as several works on the topic mention him. On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967 By Robert Lloyd Webb
One merchant of Havre, Jeremiah Winslow, was particularly well acquainted with Yankee skill; he had come from New Bedford in 1817 to begin in the French fishery.  He avoided the law through a loophole which denied the bounty t owners sending more than five ships to sea.  Winslow outfitted more than this number, and though he lost the bounty, he expected to profit by employing experienced Americans on the whaling grounds.” Pacific Journeys: Essays in Honour of John Dunmore By John Dunmore, Noel R. Watts, Roger D. J. Collins, K. R. Howe
Modern French oceanic whaling developed after the American War of Independence when, in 1785-86, New England whaling captains were encouraged by subsidies to settle in France.  The system was revived after the Napoleonic Wars, in 1816 and 1819.  Captain Jeremiah Winslow, for example was drawn to Le Havre in January 1817 where he established a large fleet and was eventually naturalized.  By the 1830s France had nearly 100 whaling ships, many of them officered by Americans, Portuguese, British and others.” Softcover, 15 pages, Imprimerie de Stanislas Faure, 1832, Language: French, Product Dimensions: 5.75" X 8.75", shipping weight: 6 ounces. PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS -  The booklet is in overall Good used condition with signs of wear, scuffs, age toning, stains, soiling, creases, possible writing, no odors. Please see images.
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