Show last brit sh whaling port dundee Is the only port in the brit ish isles that owns whale ships to ward the end ol 01 the century before last nearly all the east coast ports had whalers of their own london had thirty four ships the falling off of the industry is due chiefly to the scarcity of right whales but the turning point of the decay was taken when coal gas was discovered and there was a fall in the importance of oils as but each season dundee sends her whaling fleet to the arctic so few are right whales within the circle now that the dun dee experts know them all it lit Is said wags aver that the dundee harpoon ers have names tor for each one ol 01 them |