Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-10 | Page 15 | Whaling Firm Quits Business

i FIRM I BUSINESS Noted Business Flag I Is s Furled NEW BEDFORD Mass April 10 The The firm of J. J and W. W R. R Win Wing g has gone out of ot business The The The-an- an announcement means little to the present generation but when th the tho e whaling Industry was as Its height the flag of the house of or Wing aletter a aletter aletter white an ana anda and d letter W V on a a. field of ot a red ball on a field of ot blue was known on the seven seas It was In 1849 that Joseph an and d William R R. Wing Ving natives of ot th the e neighboring town of ot Dartmouth opened a outfitting g shop in this city In 1853 they ac acquired ac acquired qui red managing ownership of their r I first whaling ship the John Dawson Dawson Dawson Daw- Daw son and for tor more than forty years year s the tl firm was one of the dominating factors in the trade In that period twenty-five twenty ships ship s st sailed under the Wing flag Most Mos t of them met net a tr tragic gic end Th The e John Dawson after making a dozen dozen doz doz- en en voyages In the whaling grounds was lost in a storm 0 off Panama Strangely enough the first ship built expressly for tor the Wings the he bark Sunbeam launched at Mattapoisett Matta Matta- tt in 1856 survived nearly all the others and went whaling fo for tor forthe r the firm until 1910 when she was was sold and later lost lot The bark Kathleen was in service from 1857 to 1902 when she was wa s rammed by a whale and went down dow n ot off the South American coast S Soy Sev Several veral v- v I eral oral other vessels were crushed i ithe In Inthe inthe n the Arctic ice and still others other foundered in storms at sea The bark Triton a veteran of or exciting exciting exciting ex ex- citing experiences before the Wings Wing bought her was In the whaling whalin g business for tor a hundred years before before be be- fore tore the Arctic Ice finally caught caugh t her In 1846 she was attacked b by y natives of ot a South S Se Sea a Island a at t which she had touched The cre crew w rallied to the defense with whaling whalin g guns harpoons and lances but five e of their number n were killed an and d seven wounded before two Nan Nan- tuckett ships came up and rescue rescued d them During the Civil war there was wa s both perilous and profitable wor work 1 k for the whalers Confederate cruisers cruis cruis- ers particularly the Shenandoah Shenandoa h and the Alabama were raiding g northern shipping The Wings Wing gs s were advised to put their ships under under under un un- der the British flag Ill send my ships out under th the 0 Stars and Stripes it if everyone i is s lost declared William Wing He did and only boo no of them was wa s captured The Shenandoah Overtook overtook overtook over Over- took the ship Brunswick in the Arctic Arctic Arc Arc- Arctic tic In 1865 and burned her Oil on brought home by the tho fo fourteen Wing vessels then In the trade gave the I firm a profit o of in the Civil war period v x J Joseph seph Wing Ving died many years ears I ago Later William Wing was called In a railroad d wreck The state estate maintained the firm name but in recent years the only business done was vas in ready-made ready clothing in n which the Wings has been pioneers here in connection with their outfitting out out- fitting titting ship Now the firm has b been en dissolved and a department store has taken over Its Its ancient home