Talk:American Pacific Whaling Company

Ownership (and other questions)

David B. Williams (2015). Too High & Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography. University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295995045., which seems generally solid, says on p.129: "…would become the last substantial whaling company based in the United States. … the American Pacific Whaling Company had long been based in Westport, Washington, then known as Bay City, when [William] Schupp acquired it in 1914. ¶ In 1918 he moved his fleet to Meydenbauer Bay to take advantage of the less damaging freshwater. The seven killer boats, as they were known, would overwinter from October to April …

There is quite a bit more. A photo (p. 130) shows the boats at Meydenbauer Bay as late as 1937. (Just to be clear: only boat maintenance was done at Meydenbauer, not activities more directly related to whaling.) The boats were used by the military in WWII; "After the wasr the family attempted to start whaling again, but when Schupp and his son died, the company did, too. In 1949 the Sealand Construction Company bought the killer boats … [E]ach was stripped … down to its constituent elements&helllip;" (p. 131)

This doesn't seem to line up well with the current content of the article.

I can privately send a copy of the relevant page to someone who may want to work on this; keeping the quotation here minimal to minimize copyright issues. - Jmabel | Talk 06:25, 31 July 2019 (UTC)