Noordsche Compagnie

The Noordsche Compagnie (English: Northern Company) was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and operating until 1642.

The animal was sold for 126 guilders and the jaw was transported to Dillenburg and given to Jan van Nassau as a gift.

[1] In 1612, the first mention is made of a commercial expedition to Novaya Zemlya after it was concluded that whaling at the Cape of Good Hope in the southern Atlantic offered little prospects of profit.

In 1613, he was the commander of the Neptunus and the Fortuyn, two ships that were sent to Spitsbergen (modern Svalbard, then considered part of Greenland) to hunt for whales.

After a three-week journey they arrived at the coastal waters of Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, or Bear Island.

The trading area of the Noordsche Compagnie stretched from the Davis Strait to Novaya Zemlya, north of Russia.

Michiel de Ruyter, the most famous Dutch admiral, served as pilot on a ship of the Noordsche Compagnie from 1633 to 1635.

The company had started receiving intense competition from Dutch interlopers and Danish whalers.

Whaling, by H. Kobell, Jr.
The Greenland warehouses on the Keizersgracht 40–44. Built in 1621. Photo from 1924, two years after the renovation. Originally there were five, of which only these three remain [ 3 ]
Whaling in the Arctic, anonymous 18th century print