1A person who hunted whales from a station on the shore.
the harbours of southwestern Australia were being used by sealers and bay whalers
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The bay whalers concentrated first on what is now the South Australian coast.
Shore and bay whalers operated differently from the midocean hunters of Nantucket.
The bay whaler waited for the whales to come to them.
He was a bay–whaler, ship–owner and self–appointed builder and lay reader.
This was the first permanent European settlement in the South Island of New Zealand, and its bay whalers were some of the founding fathers of the country.
1.1A boat used for hunting whales from a station on the shore.
it had been outfitted as a bay whaler before being wrecked in 1837
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The ship was the first of the American vessels to operate as a bay whaler in the South Island.
Not for her the short season of the bay-whaler that worked close to shore.
Life on a bay whaler was cramped and uncomfortable.
She was purchased about 1814 by to sail out of Hobart Town as a bay whaler and sealer under the command of the colourful and redoubtable Captain James Kelly.
Should one of their ships be only partially successful, she could fill up with the oil secured during her absence by the bay whaler.