William
H. Tripp Collection T-1695 [T-1695 Bailing]
Bailing Oil into Cooler
After the scraps are removed, the mate with a copper bailer,
holding a gallon, ladles the golden colored, clear, sweet-smelling,
pure oil into the “cooler,” or cooling tank, from
which it runs by means of pipes into tanks in the hold.
Our try-pots each held about six barrels of oil.
William H. Tripp (1880-1959, American)
BAILING
Mr. Lopes, first mate of the John R. Manta , bails the raw
oil from the try-pots into a cooling tank alongside, in
1923. Once cooled, the oil will be placed in wooden barrels
for the homeward passage to New Bedford, where it will be
further processed and refined ashore. |
