A whaling ship is stopped, and a whale is being cut up in pieces to be processed.
It would be impossible to hoist a full grown whale aboard. They have a method to do it in pieces.
Crew members had to use blubber hooks
and long knives as well as long poles with a blade attached to chop into the whale and to cut pieces off.
In this image the whale is floated onto its back and, they are lifting the whale by the lower jaw. |
