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.
On board the vessel, whales were subjected to a similar process as those ashore, with their blubber being dissected into manageable pieces and stored in containers for further processing either at a shore-based station or during the ship's return voyage.