Item 25103 - Removing whale blubber, Ragged Island, 1927
- Item 25103 - Removing whale blubber, Ragged Island, 1927
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Image Info In late February 1927, after a large storm, a finback whale beached itself on Ragged Island near Orr's Island.
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Lobster fishermen Isaac Orrin Linscott, E. Moore Tibbetts and Capt. Sam Doughty discovered the whale, which had been dead for about a month.
Capt. William Sylvester, an experienced whale, and many other local men helped remove the baleen and blubber from the whale.
This image shows two men stripping the blubber.
