The ship was equipped with the most up-to-date gear 

 for trawling and dredging. There was a drum or reel 

 holding 1,000 fathoms of steel- wire dredge rope 1/3-inch 

 in diameter (1-1/8 inch in circumference) with breaking 

 strain of 8,750 pounds; the wire rope weighed 1. 14 pounds 

 per fathom. The dredging boom was 36 feet long and 10 

 inches in diameter. It was used for operating beam trawls 

 of three different sizes (9 feet, 11 feet, and 17 feet long 

 beams), otter trawls, and various dredges (fig. 21). 



Other types of collecting gear such as tangle bars, 

 rake dredges, and various sieves (so-called table sieve 

 and cradle sieve) were designed by Verrill. The sounding 

 machine consisted of a cast brass reel 11, 43 inches in 

 diameter and 600 fathonns of piano wire of 0. 0028 inch 

 diameter, having a tensile strength of 200 pounds. 



Built primarily as a "hatchery ship" the Fish Hawk 

 was not suitable for offshore work but was intensively used 

 in dredging and trawling in Vineyard Sound, around Cape 

 Cod, in the Gulf of Maine, Long Island Sound, and other 

 coastal waters. The ship made her last two cruises in 

 October-December, 1925, and was decommissioned in 

 January 1926. 



U. S. S. Albatross 



The Albatross (fig. 22) was an iron-hull, twin-screw 

 vessel of 234 feet overall length and 1, 034 tons displacement 

 (registered net tonnage 384 tons). She was built by the Pasey 

 and Jones Company of Wilmington, Del. , according to the 

 plans drawn by Charles W. Copland of New York; aggregate 

 cost was $145, 000. She was launched in March 1882, and 

 made her first cruise in April 1883. 



According to Lt. Com. Tanner, her first commanding 

 officer (Tanner, 1885), she was rigged "as a brigantine, 

 carrying sail to a foretop-gallant sail. " She had comfortable 

 cabins, had water distilling equipment for drinking water, 

 electric lights, and elaborate equipment for oceanographic 

 research. There were two laboratories. The upper one, 

 14 feet long and occupying the whole width of the house, had 

 a square work table for four persons centrally located. Each 

 working place was provided with a tier of drawers under the 

 table. Attached to the walls were two hinged side tables, a 

 sink, water and alcohol tanks, wall cabinets for instruments 

 and glassware, and books. A medical dispensary occupied a 

 corner of the room. The lower laboratory, immediately 

 below the upper one extended across the ship 20 feet fore and 

 aft. It was supplied with long working tables and a lead-lined 

 sink with running water. Part of the space was used as a 



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