The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south

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1. Story
2. The Norwegian factory ship Lancing is fitted with a stern slipway - a ramp from the stern to the working deck, patented in 1922 - and taken to the Antarctic grounds. Whales can now be hauled aboard and processed in open water, in weather that would have made alongside flensing impossible. The fleet is released from the coast, and pelagic Antarctic whaling begins in earnest.
3. Knowledge
4. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
5. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
6. Southern Ocean
7. Connections
8. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
9. Southern Ocean
10. Grytviken Whaling Station
11. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
12. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
13. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
14. Antarctic Summer Feeding Migration
15. South Georgia
16. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
17. Seasonal Krill Aggregation
18. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
19. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
20. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
21. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
22. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
23. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
24. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
25. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
26. CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
27. A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
28. CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
29. Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
30. Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC)
31. Antarctica
32. Thermohaline Circulation
33. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
34. Weddell Sea
35. A circumpolar current becomes possible
36. Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell
37. A physics-based early warning signal is proposed
38. Evidence
39. The stern slipway, patented in 1922, was first taken to the Antarctic grounds in the factory ship Lancing in 1925, allowing whales to be hauled aboard and flensed in open water and beginning pelagic Antarctic whaling in earnest. In the 1930-31 season 29,410 blue whales were killed in the Antarctic, the highest single-season blue whale catch on record, with 41 factories and about 200 catchers operating and world production reaching about 3.6 million barrels; most Antarctic companies then declared a whaling holiday and production fell to about 775,000 barrels in 1931-32. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary; the sources retrieved render the patent holder's name inconsistently and no inventor is asserted.