"thar she blows !""
it was a pretty gruesome business and many of the whale-hunters were themselves killed killed when hunting whales .
many ships sailing from the port of hamburg were engaged in whale hunting in the 17th and 18th century .
there were 'whale cookeries' just outside the city limits were the whale blubber would be 'cooked down' into whale oil to be used in household oillamps .
apparently it was a very lucrative business and made many a shipping company and its owners rich . hbg
