11. Where the whale was flensed differed between the English and oil in large copper kettles. 12. The whales were brought alongside a wharf or cutting stage, where they were flensed . 13. This allowed another whale to be brought up the slipway and unto the deck to be flensed . 14. Between 1852 and 1874, flense whales, and obtain wood and water or shelter from storms. 15. Flensing at stations in the early modern era ( late nineteenth century ) differed little from earlier methods.16. Once ashore, the whale was quickly flensed and divided into its separate parts for various warehouses and further processing. 17. The meat was flensed similar to the blubber, while the bones were sliced by a steam-driven bone saw. 18. Whalers hunted by day, towing their catch to shore for flensing , operating in a fairly small area around the whaling stations. 19. The Dutch eschewed this system, bringing the whales into the shallows at high-tide and flensing them at low-tide. 20. With the introduction of the stern slipway in the " Lancing " in 1925 flensing could be performed entirely on the open sea.
