whale catcher

noun

1. a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales

Example Sentences

After a decade of whaling, he worked on one of the final whale catcher vessels which worked out of Grytviken.

From BBC

Griffin didn’t foresee what that new understanding would mean for himself, as he became the world’s most famous whale catcher.

From Seattle Times

In fact, moreover, there was not an old whale catcher on board who did not now and then congratulate himself that the schooner was steering toward the tropics, and would soon leave behind her that fierce, destructive river of dry, penetrating polar air.

From Project Gutenberg