Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship

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1. Story
2. The machine that made the Antarctic blue whale catchable at industrial scale. Before it, whales had to be towed to a shore station or processed alongside a moored factory in sheltered water. The stern slipway - a ramp from a hole in the stern up to the working deck, patented in 1922 and first taken south in the factory ship Lancing in 1925 - allowed whales to be hauled aboard and flensed in open, rough water. The fleet no longer needed a coast. Within six seasons the Antarctic catch reached its all-time peak, and by the 1930/31 season 41 factories with about 200 catchers were operating. The migration route and the hunting range became the same thing.
3. Knowledge
4. Grytviken Whaling Station
5. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
6. Connections
7. Grytviken Whaling Station
8. The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
9. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
10. South Georgia
11. Stern-Slipway Pelagic Factory Ship
12. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
13. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
14. Whaling ends at South Georgia
15. Evidence
16. 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.