Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Creator: Unknown. Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Creator: Unknown. Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Launch of the "Earl of Hardwicke", Whaling Ship, at Cowes, 1850. Launch of...a fine barque, measuring about 256 tons...built for the Southern Whale-Fishery Company, by Messrs. Thomas and John White, the well-known shipbuilders of the above-mentioned place. The ship has been named the Earl of Hardwicke, in compliment to the Governor of the Company...'. [The vessel is]...being fitted with all despatch, and will be sent direct to the Company's station at Auckland Island, in order to prosecute the Whale Fishery from thence; in which pursuit [it] will have been preceded by the whaling-ships which the Company sent out in August last, conveying the preliminary expedition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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