Cutting-tackle used in "cutting in" the whale.

Whaling Source Whalesite

Plate 206

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THE WHALE FISHERY.
Cutting-tackle used in "cutting in" the whale.

(Sect. v, vol. ii, pp. 277-281.)

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Fig. 1.	Lower block strapped with rope (a a a), and blubber hook (g), shackled into the grommet (d). The rope beckets (c c c) are used for convenience in handling the block, and the back lashing (h) by tho officer in directing the point of the hook into a hole in the blubber.
Fig. 2.	Upper blocks (b b), guy block (c), pendant shackles (a a), and links.
Fig. 3.	Lower block (b) strapped with chain (d) and sister hooks (c) into which the tail maybe coupled by means of the link (a).
Fig. 4.	Perspective view of cutting-tackle, showing the position it assumes when suspended from the mast-head. It should be guyed out by means of the guy-block and robe (c), and the end of the cutting-falls (e) should lead to the windlass.
Fig. 5.	An implement called the small blubber hook, used to manipulate blubber on the vessel.

Source.

George Brown Goode.
The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.
Section V, History and Methods of the Fisheries ... Plates.
1887.
At head of title page: "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner."
Also on title page: "Prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates."
Also published as: Serial Set Vol. No. 2003, (47th Congress, 1st Session. Vol. No. 11, Misc.Doc. 124, pt. 7.)
288 p.
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