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Clusters of red roof tile fragments can still be seen on Henley Island where whale oil was processed at shore-side tryworks. At least two Basque whaling ships, the Madalena and the Maria, are known to have gone down in the harbour.

Chateau Bay, Labrador, and William Richardson's 1769 sketch of York Fort

installed on-deck tryworks on their vessels that allowed blubber to

The Red Atlantic: transoceanic cultural exchanges

In 1860, when the Hawaiian schooner Maria arrived at Magdalena Bay on 3 December, the crew immediately went ashore, constructed tryworks and huts, and prepared a scow for transporting blubber to land (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 18 April 1861, 5(42):2).

Nineteenth-century ship-based catches of gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, in the eastern North Pacific

Byron Pedler (right) spent long hours this summer extracting and purifying compounds from dolphin fat, like a laborer in an 18th-century tryworks. Instead of boiling vats and flensing knives, his tools were glassware, solvents, and mass spectrometers.

Distilling an education

Excavations at the site were carried out in 1997, and uncovered the remains of the tryworks, the crew barracks, and the quarters of the senior headsman who managed the station.

Foodways on two colonial whaling stations: archaeological and historical evidence for diet in nineteenth-century Tasmania

Roof tile fragments were recorded along the west side of the cove in 1985 (Vera et al., 1986), and the 1991 LSCS located a tryworks on the eastern shore of that cove.

Long-term coastal occupancy between Cape Charles and Trunmore bay, Labrador

This presumably is different from the on-shore tryworks set up in 1860-61 on the eastern shore of San Ignacio (Ballenas) Lagoon (La Freidera, or The Trypot or Tryworks; Henderson, 1972:100, 157).

Commercial whaling, especially for gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, and humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, at California and Baja California shore stations in the 19th century (1854-1899)

By the 1750s, islanders had installed on-deck tryworks on their vessels that allowed blubber to be boiled at sea.

Mashpee Wampanoags of Cape Cod, the Whalefishery, and Seafaring's Impact on Community Development

Tryworks once stood on Tryhouse Point at the head of Bass Harbor, Maine, in the modern village of Barnard, formerly West Bass Harbor (Kelley (3)).

Humpback and fin whaling in the Gulf of Maine from 1800 to 1918