Many of the French Basque ships, instead of returning to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Ciboure, or Bayonne (where they would have to transship their oil and bone), went into Le Havre or Honfleur in Normandy, where a large percentage of the whale oil market existed.
Mnogi od francuskih baskijskih brodova, umjesto povratka u Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Ciboure ili Bayonne (gdje bi se pretovaralo njihovo ulje i kost), otišao u Le Havre ili Honfleur u Normandiji, gdje je postojao veliki postotak tržišta kitolovog ulja i kosti.