THE SHIP AND HER COMPLEMENT 



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Rough lay-out of the Galathea. i Salute gun. 2 Fixed insect-catching net. 3 Starboard davit for hauling 

 up bottom samples from shallow water. 4 Reception mess. 5 Hydrography winch on port side. 6 Commander's 

 cabin. 7 Wheel house. 8 Radar, g Chart-house. 10 Echo-sounder. 11 Radio station. 12 Photographic 

 tank for taking under-water films. 13 Jeep. 14 Accumulator for regulating tension of wire between winch 

 and drum. 15 The big trawling winch. 16 Dynamometer for gauging tension of wire, ij Crane for putting 

 out heavy gear. 18 The big trawl gallows, ig Angle gauge fixed to wire. 20 Orlop deck. 21 Sick cabin. 

 22 Consulting cabin. 23 Canteen. 24 Petty officers'' cabin. 25 Petty officers' mess. 26 Leader's cabin. 

 27 Laboratory. 28 Removable harpooning platform. 2g Hold for scientific collections. 30 Drum for the 

 large wire, course of the latter over the deck being as shown. 31 Sleeping deck. 32 Officers' and scientists' 

 mess. 33 Removable angling chair. 34 Officers' cabins. 35 Dark-room. 36 Gear hold containing spheres 

 Jor magnetic surveys. 37 Cold stores. 38 Pantry. 3g Stokehold. 40 Engine-room. 41 Deep-freezing store. 



wire will snap like sewing-thread. Happily, however, we never needed 

 this extra reserve wire. 



Considerations of weight distribution prevented us from having this 

 wire rolled up on its drum on the quarter-deck; and so it was kept for- 

 ward in a special space below deck, from where it was drawn up over the 

 boat deck to the trawl winch on the quarter-deck. From the winch the 

 wire was led over a large trawl gallows situated in the stern. The various 

 trawling and research gear was fixed to the end of the wire. 



In the forepart of the ship, on the port side, was an electric hydrogra- 

 phical winch, a duplicate being installed on the starboard side as a reserve. 

 Also on the starboard side was a Lucas sounding machine. This, however, 

 was never used, as all deep soundings were made with the Kelvin-Hughes 

 echo-sounder specially designed for the expedition. 



Among other installations, of a more primitive kind but very useful, 

 we had two specially designed platforms, or boatswains' chairs. One of 

 these could be fixed to the stem near the surface and used as a station 

 from which to harpoon dolphins or take photographs; the other could 

 be suspended over the ship's side as an angling platform when the ship 

 was stationary or proceeding slowly during night trawling. Angling from 



