THE CARNEGIE: 



ITS PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT, AND WORK 



Introduction 



In preparing the following report on the Carnegie , 

 and its personnel and program of work on cruise VII, an 

 effort has been made to include such information as may 

 be useful in planning other scientific cruises of similar 

 character and scope. It is especially hoped that this 

 discussion will call attention to the need for selecting 

 the personnel with great care and of outlining, even in 

 detail, the programs for the various investigations to be 

 undertaken. 



The amount of work possible on a scientific cruise 

 will be determined, in the final analysis, by the size of 

 the boat, insofar as it determines the amount of labora- 

 tory and working space and the number of workers that 

 can be carried on board. For this reason it probably 

 always will be advisable, when an extensive program is 

 contemplated for a ship of the small size of the Carnegie , 

 to carry out only the necessary work on board and to 

 forward all material possible to a shore laboratory for 

 detailed and final study. 



Arrangement of Space on the Carnegie 



With one exception, the living quarters are located 

 below decks, and the laboratories and work rooms are 

 located in the superstructures. The diagrams and the 

 description below will indicate the arrangements of 

 quarters for the crew and the scientific staff, and the 

 working space for the various subjects investigated. 



Below Decks (fig. 1). --Amidships is located the 

 cabin which serves as quarters for the scientific staff. 

 This section consists of a dining room in the center and 

 around it seven staterooms, an office, a bathroom, and a 

 galley. At one end of the dining room is a case for the 

 chronometers and shelves for books. Each stateroom 

 will accommodate only one person and is furnished with 

 bed, dresser, washstand, book shelves, and a small desk. 

 There is also a bed in the radio room above, which 

 makes a total of eight rooms for scientists. Another one 

 can be provided by eliminating the office, which at pres- 

 ent is used mainly for filing records and storing record 

 blanks. The office does not make a pleasant stateroom, 

 however, since it receives no daylight. 



Forward of the cabin are the quarters for the offi- 

 cers of the sailing staff. These quarters consist of the 

 wardroom and three staterooms, containing a total of 

 four bunks. 



Forward of the wardroom are the forward galley and 

 the cooks' room. The latter accommodates four persons. 



Forward of the galley and cooks' room is the fore- 

 castle which contains nine butnks. 



The space aft of the cabin contains the engine room, 

 machine shop, fuel tanks, darkroom, and storerooms. 



Laboratories and Other Work Rooms (figs. 1 and 

 2). --Practically all the space available for scientific and 

 navigational purposes is located above decks, where 

 superstructures have been built wherever possible. On 

 the quarter- (or after) deck is found the largest unoccu- 

 pied deck space; this is needed for making oceanographic 

 observations and collections. 



On the forward half of the deck is located the chart 

 room, which measures 13 3/4 by 14 1/2 feet. Opening 

 from it are four doors (two leading to the domes and one 

 to each side of the deck), and a companionway leading to 

 the cabin. The chart room contains a standard compass, 

 a chart table 3 2/3 by 5 feet, cases for sextants, shelves 

 for books, and six small desks 27 by 28 inches. The 

 room is used for making computations and for other 

 clerical work in connection with navigation, magnetism, 

 sonic sounding, salinity, temperature, ocean currents, 

 and meteorology. 



Connected with each end of the chart room is a circu- 

 lar, glass-covered dome, 7 3/4 feet in diameter. These 

 domes are used exclusively for magnetic observations. 



Immediately aft of the after dome is the atmospheric- 

 electric laboratory, which is built on the deck containing 

 the cabin ventilators, about 3 feet above the main deck. 

 This laboratory measures 7 3/4 by 9 1/4 feet and the 

 space in it is occupied completely by electrical appara- 

 tus and one desk. 



Aft of the atmospheric-electric laboratory, andtoward 

 the starboard side of the boat, is the oceanographic labo- 

 ratory. Its dimensions are 8 by 11 feet but about 15 

 square feet of floor space are taken up by the corner of a 

 a companionway and a mast. This laboratory contains 

 the apparatus for electrometric determinations of salin- 

 ity, a sea-water thermograph, and biological and chemi- 

 cal laboratory apparatus. 



The room on the port side, opposite the oceanograph- 

 ic laboratory, is 8 by 9 feet in size and contains the radio 

 equipment and living quarters for the operator. 



Aft of the radio room is the so-called control room, 

 which contains the control apparatus of the sonic depth 

 finder, a roll and pitch recorder, thermographs, and 

 racks for reversing thermometers. This room measures 

 6 by 7 feet but is only about 5 1/2 feet in height since it 

 is built on the quarter-deck where greater elevation 

 would interfere with the main boom. 



On the quarter-deck are located the winch and davits 

 used in oceanographic work, as well as a large box con- 

 taining water bottles and other collecting apparatus. 



Personnel of the Carnegie 



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