Episode 4 of 4
Salvage Operations
- When
- 1872
- Where
- Arctic Ocean
Salvage companies sent ships to the Arctic in 1872 to recover valuable whale oil and bone from the lost fleet.
After the disaster, salvage companies dispatched ships to the Arctic in 1872. They recovered what valuable whale oil and whalebone they could from the abandoned vessels, which had been crushed, sunk, or stripped by local Inupiat.
Sources
- Whaling disaster of 1871 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-24
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