Significant clients of the bunker industry in Cape Town until the early 1960s were the whaling fleets who, during their annual movements to and from the Southern Ocean took full stems of bunkers. This photograph shows the Norwegian whalecatcher Norfinn arriving in Cape Town in 1950. She was built in 1940 as the British Flower-class corvette HMS Primrose, and shortly after World War 2, she served as a Norwegian buoy tender. In 1949, she was refitted as a whalecatcher and came to Cape Town as part of the fleet serving the factory ship Norwahl. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1966. Photograph : Brian Ingpen/George Young Collection
The Bluff Whale Heritage site in Durban has put out an appeal. It is interested to hear from anyone who can recall the old whaling station on the Bluff. In particular any stories and photographs that you are happy to share.
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