Grease gun for greasing Blakes Seacocks

I have a Draper grease gun and it takes cartridges or self loading, you have to set the piston cup up for one or the other. I also have long extensions hoses instead of the solid pipe with nipple. I don't have grease nipple on my Blakes but I use this to grease the steering nipples many of which are in awkward places.
 
This seems to be a reasonable quality small grease gun, which I'm sure would be fine for Blakes seacocks.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Clarke-CGG1...d_cp_60_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=127PAXPBB30M0Z9CXXHT

All grease guns I've seen can be bulk filled from a tin, and I'd be very surprised if this can't.

A couple of thoughts:
The flexible pipe would be useful if the grease nipples are tricky to get at
You don't need to fork out on Blakes grease. I've been using Ramanol white for the past 8 yrs on ours no problem.
We use our boat a lot, and are strict about keeping seacocks closed at sea when not in use, so particularly those seacocks in the heads get a lot of use. I only need to grease them once a year, when the boat is out of the water, and do that by taking them apart. I only have 1 seacock with a grease nipple (heads outlet, which was replaced a few years ago, as the plug was corroded), and am seriously considering removing the grease nipple and blanking it off, after reading on here of one failing. What I'm trying to say is do you need to grease them with a gun, via the nipple?
 
I bought a 120cc grease gun from Halfords a couple of years ago

similar to this one.
You wont need a bigger one but you might need a flexible hose type if access is poor

588931
... http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/garage-equipment/garage-essentials/laser-grease-gun-120cc
 
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