Word: frango
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's 39 "floating factories," which annually take 3,000,000-odd barrels of whale oil, only two fly the U. S. flag. Smaller of the two is the American Whaling Co.'s 6,400-ton Frango, mother ship and rendering plant for a fleet of six whale chasers. Last spring, when the Frango was about to set out for Shark Bay off Western Australia, the U. S. Coast Guard asked for a volunteer to see that no international treaty provision was violated. Lieutenant Thomas Robley Midtlyng, 29, volunteered...
Lieutenant Midtlyng had known little about whaling when he boarded the Frango, but reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead...
...When the Frango put in at its pier off Staten Island, N. Y., Lieutenant Midtylng hopped ashore, made his report. Twenty-four hours later U. S. officials seized the ship's $500,000 cargo, sealed it, filed a libel action against 423 tons of her whale...
...significance was the annual revival of the oyster business, starting last week. But of great significance was a 6,000-ton steamer, slowly going down the Atlantic seaboard. She was the Frango, first ship of the new American Whaling Co. Aboard her are 69 oldtime Norwegian whalers. In charge of the expedition is Captain Olaf Stokken of Sunnyfield, N. J.; in charge of the vessel is Captain Johannes Smith of Freeport, L. I. Off Georgia the Frango will be joined by four small "killer" boats, will then proceed to the Antarctic. Unfamiliar in this region is the U. S. flag...