Pastor Løchen: Hval og hvalross

I assume that 'Pastor Løchen' is the same as Kristen Løken, the Lutheran pastor from Lillehammer who was hired, in February 1912, by whaling manager C.A. Larsen. Two months later Kristen Løken arrived on Grytviken, South Georgia, where he worked as a priest until June 1914. In the 1980s the Sandefjord Whaling Museum obtained Løken's letters from this period (1912-1914, mainly addressed to his parents), and 135 photographs that he mainly took himself.

The whale catcher on the photograph has no 'gunner bridge' and therefore are old-style catcher boats (from before the 1920s). I think this picture was taken around King Edward Point showing the ship in Cumberland Bay on her way to Grytviken.