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The
vessel was sold to the Cheynes Beach Whaling Company
in Albany by the Union Whaling Company after it had
had a disasterous season in 1967. The company retrenched
50% of its staff and sold half of its catchers including
one, the Wilfred Fearnhead, to the Australian company,
who promptly renamed it the Cheynes IV. The museum is
built on the site of the old Cheynes Beach whaling station
and the buildings and facilities are still to be seen
in addition to the Cheynes IV, a collection of art featuring
marine mammals, a whale skeleton display, an aviation
display, and many more interesting things.
Whale
World looks to be an interesting little museum and well
worth the visit. The proof of that is in the fact that
more than 1,3 million people have visited it. This is
in marked contrast to the situation in Durban where
little has been done to preserve our whaling past and
where the splendidly-sited waling station on the Bluff
has been in use as an armed forces gun range and out
of bounds to the public for many years.
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details on Whale World are available from the museum
website.
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