No whaling vessel could have been better armed.

就是一只捕鲸船也不会装备得更完备了。

What fragmentary scientific knowledge was available came from measurements taken by explorers, naval ships, the occasional research expeditions or whaling vessels.

那些残缺不全的科学知识来自于探险者、海军船只、临时的研究探险或捕鲸船只所进行的测量。

One of the factors that probably contributed to productivity onboard a whaling vessel was the prospect of future advancement.

可能有助于捕鲸船上生产力的因素之一是未来进步的前景。

One day we were chased by the longboats of a whaling vessel, which undoubtedly viewed us as some enormous baleen whale of great value.

一天，我们被一只捕鲸船的小艇追逐，他们一定认为我们的船是价值很大的巨大鲸鱼。

And they went into the oceans in pursuit of any American shipping, but they knew that whaling vessels were a particularly lucrative target.

他们进入海洋追捕任何美国船只，但他们知道捕鲸船是一个特别有利可图的目标。

American whaling vessels just discarded the carcasses of whales once the — you know, they took the blubber, almost like peeling it, like an orange.

美国捕鲸船一旦——你知道，他们拿走了鲸脂，就像剥橘子一样，就丢弃了鲸鱼的尸体。

In essence, a whaling vessel had reported that some medals and a Cross of St.Louis had been found in the hands of savages in the Louisiade Islands and New Caledonia.

因为他从一只捕鲸船的报告知道，有好些徽章和一种圣路易十字勋章在路易西安尼省和新喀里多尼亚岛的土人手里发现。

So the Confederate ship Shenandoah went up into the Arctic Ocean, knowing that there were whaling vessels there, and captured a whole bunch of them and I think burned most of them.

因此，联邦船只雪兰多号进入北冰洋，知道那里有捕鲸船，捕获了一大群捕鲸船，我认为烧毁了其中大部分。