2 MARIOX EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



beloAv the bridge contained the wash rooms and water-closets, the 

 upper engine room, entries to berthing and messing spaces, and 

 several lockers used for ordnance equipment, boatswain's stores, car- 

 penter stores, and cleaning gear. 



The steel deck over the upper engine room had an extension built 

 out to starboard and the whole served as the platform for the ocean- 

 ographic work. The main oceanographic platform can best be seen 

 in Figures 10 and 11. The latter figure shows the water-bottle rack 

 and considerable detail about the large winch. In addition to the 

 large winch Avorking some 10,000 feet of g^^-inch wire rope from the 



I'lOKSONXKL ON MARION EXrEDITION, 11)28 



Figure 3. — The officers and crew of the Coast Guard patrol boat Marion just prior to 

 their departure for the Arctic in July, 1928. The Marion had a complement of two 

 commissioned officers, two warrant officers, and 23 enlisted men. Sitting lert to 

 right : Boatswain J. B. Krestensen, Lieut. Commander Edward H. Smith, Lieut N. (j. 

 Ricketts, and Boatswain (T) A. L. Cunningham. 



overhanging platform, there was a smaller winch farther aft using 

 12,000 feet of ^V-inch wire rope. The latter was employed for bot- 

 tom sampling and for taking the lower levels at the oceanographic 

 stations, usually at the same time that the big winch was being 

 operated. 



Below the spar deck there was but one continuous deck level. It 

 contained from forward aft, the following compartments : Forehold, 

 crew's berthing space, three staterooms for officers, engine room, 

 galley, pantry, furnace room, officer's mess room and ship's office, 

 coal bunker, water tank, crew's mess room, and the afterholcl. Below 



