This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November 1961. I worked on the Southern Venturer this season — the last that Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen ...

Stromness whaling station was leased in 1931 and used for maintaining the company's whale-catchers. By the end of the 1950s, Leith Harbour was utilising every part of the whale, including the ...

because Grytviken whaling station was operated by an Argentine company, though almost all the managers and whalers were Norwegian. My friend George Bennett was the chemist at Leith Harbour.

For decades, South Georgia was the world's largest whaling station, with Edinburgh-based Christian Salvesen Company controlling six processing sites including Leith Harbour and Stromness ...