Whale blubber buckets?

[cogar]

I believe that whale oil was extracted the same way as hog oil (lard).

The blubber was hoisted onto the deck and then below deck and then thrown into the rendering kettle. 

T'was then a bucket was needed to fill the barrels.

[Rauville]

I'm glad I never had to work in that profession. Everything and everyone covered in whale juice doesn't sound as romantic as it does in novels. They say the stench was so bad that you could smell a whale ship coming over the horizon.

Here's an example of a "bailer":
http://www.girlonawhaleship.org/jernapp/artifactPage.do?shortName=case_bailer&page

[greenacres]

The ships would be out at sea for 3 years at a time. They would fill the bottoms of the boat with the oils and fat. They would drop small boats in the water and stab at the whales. If their tales would hit their little boats they were thrown into the sea. Being in charge of killing the whales was a very prestigious job. That's something I would definitely not be interested in! 

[mart]

A fire in the hold of a whaler with  huge amounts of oil ??  Not smart !!  Still a tiny bucket for that !!

[greenacres]

  Nope! Being lost at sea in a life boat is no joke. Cannibalism can be their only source of food.