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Photograph of men on board a ship.

• MS 254/8/9/8
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of Svend Foyn, the inventor of the modern harpoon gun.

• MS 254/8/9/4
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of a man on board a ship using a harpoon gun.

• MS 254/8/9/6
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of a whale tied alongside a ship.

• MS 254/8/9/7
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of a ship at sea.

• MS 254/8/9/5
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph showing the deck house of the Discovery.

• MS 254/8/9/2
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Nippy the "screecher" pays us a visit'.

• MS 254/8/5/10
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Letter from Marian Hepworth, Researcher, Grampian Television Limited to James D. Boyd, Dundee Museums and Art Galleries thanking him for the loan of the photographs for use in the programme 'Flair'.

• MS 254/8/7/1
• Item
• 23rd October 1979

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of a man working with animal carcass on board a ship.

• MS 254/8/9/1
• Item
• 19th-20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Journals.

• MS 254/5/4
• Sub-series
• 1898-1993

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

After 2 days cooling on deck, whitecoat pelts are dropped into the hold to be stowed. Hard work.'

• MS 254/8/5/5
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

The ship can get no further in 15 foot thick fast ice. With flay poles, the sealers set out hoping to reach seals.'

• MS 254/8/5/9
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Axe chapping ice is good fun. The pieces are winched aboard in a net and used for freshwater and for icing down the pelts.'

• MS 254/8/5/7
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Hood seal families like to stay by themselves. Labrador coast and Kyle beyond'.

• MS 254/8/5/6
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

See the rope net you scramble down, my son? The fellas can't wait to be on the ice after the swiles'.

• MS 254/8/5/4
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Kyle, North Star VI and Crosbie are trying to bash through solid ice among the Labrador islands. Exciting.'

• MS 254/8/5/8
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Blinding magnificent middle-of-nowhere ice and a Harp Seal herd have been sighted133'

• MS 254/8/5/2
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

We even crossed Offer Red Island one day in April trying to reach the beaters.'

• MS 254/8/5/11
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

6 miles off Battle Harbour, Labrador, the ship reaches the first patch of Harp seals133'

• MS 254/8/5/3
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

The carcases of seals by tradition belong to the crew, who take them home to eat and sell'.

• MS 254/8/5/12
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Piece of paper from a newspaper or magazine. On one side 'Baleen whale ad a school of pilot whales stranded in Mount's Bay' and on the reverse 'Dead rorqual on the rocks of the Yorkshire Coast'.

• MS 254/8/6/5
• Item
• n.d.

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

A strop of beater pelts has been winched aboard'.

• MS 254/8/5/13
• Item
• 1965

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

2 pieces of paper with a red flower pattern, overlaid with gold leaf.

• MS 254/8/6/9
• Item
• n.d.

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Photograph of a group of beached whales; possibly a school of pilot whales which has run ashore in Mount's Bay, Cornwall.

• MS 254/8/6/4
• Item
• 20th century

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson

Piece of paper from a newspaper or magazine showing a sketch, 'Walrus'.

• MS 254/8/6/6
• Item
• n.d.

Part of David Henderson Collection

David Henderson