As the necropsy winds down, New Bedford Whaling Museum officials will start preparing the whale for an even more detailed " flensing " _ the stripping of everything from the bones.
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British and Spanish naval explorers scouted Indian Arm in the late eighteenth century, and by the mid-nineteenth century, whales were being caught and flensed on the Cove's shores.
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There, men with flensing knives would not only cut up the blubber into long strips with the assistance of these capstans, but also cut up the viscera and bones to make various products.
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The whale was winched up the slipway onto a flensing plan, where men with long-handled knives shaped like hockey sticks would cut off long strips of blubber with the help of winches.
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After cutting through skin, blubber and muscle with sicklelike Japanese flensing knives, they hoisted the severed head onto the back of a flatbed truck and transported it to the warehouse to be cleaned and analyzed.
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The largest fin whale ever weighed ( piecemeal ) was a pregnant female caught by Japanese whalers in the Antarctic in 1948 which weighed, not including 6 % for loss of fluids during the flensing process.
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The diary of Benjamin Bangs ( 1721 1769 ) shows that, along with the bumpkin sloop he sailed, he found three other sloops flensing sperm whales off the coast of North Carolina in late May 1743.
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Lilliendahl supplied them with defective rockets, and before the station was built, they were forced to tow the dead whales to the " Reindeer ", where they were flensed and processed the old fashioned way.
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In California during the 19th Century whales could be winched ashore either at a sandy beach or, in the case of the Monterey, they were brought to the side of a stone-laid quay to be flensed.
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Here whales were flensed alongside the ship, the blubber cut into small pieces and put into casks to either be boiled into oil at a station ashore, or, by late century, on the return to port.
