Crossword-Solution: WHALERS 7 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The 30th of June, the frigate spoke some American whalers, from whom we learned that they knew nothing about the narwhal.

Lerwick and Kirkwall, like Guam or the Bay of Islands, were but barbarous ports where whalers called to take up and to return experienced seamen.

God help us if it blocks that narrow pass which is our only road to safety! Situated as we are on the edge of the main Arctic pack, or the “barrier” as it is called by the whalers, any wind from the north has the effect of shredding out the ice around us and allowing our escape, while a wind from the south blows up all the loose ice behind us and hems us in between two packs.

What is the Flag of England? Winds of the World, declare! The North Wind blew: -- “From Bergen my steel-shod vanguards go; I chase your lazy whalers home from the Disko floe; By the great North Lights above me I work the will of God, And the liner splits on the ice-field or the Dogger fills with cod.

Last of all I described the whalers who were absent from home for years, and who came back to find their children and their grandchildren waiting for them.