stationed at Landguard Fuit. H I 



beneath the deck for the stowage of such articles as require to 

 be kept dry, as clothing and provisions. D and D are bailing 

 places, having two plug-holes in each of" one inch and a halt" dia- 

 meter, with a trap-door to cover over them, to render the plat- 

 form complete when they are not required to be ojien. The plat- 

 form between the thwarts A and A is made to lift, so that the 

 space beneath it may be applied to the reception of such quan- 

 tity of small tow-line, as it may be considered necessary to have 

 on board, in cases of emergency ; and the cable and stern-fast 

 are coiled away on the platform, clear of the bailing places, at 

 E and E. F is a crutch to receive the helmsman's thighs just 

 above the knees, and enables him to stand with firmness on 

 his platform to effect the steerage dut}'. Tliis is better under- 

 stood by the bird's-eye view of the thing in fig. 2 at B. 



Fig. 2 is a whole-breadth plan of the interior of the vessel, 

 with the position of the thwarts and of the cases of floating 

 capacity on each side and amidships, throughout the length, 

 between and beneath the thwarts A and A ; the cases being 

 marked ^\ith the letter C. DD and DD are strong cant- 

 pieces or breast-beams across the boat, which limit the extent 

 of each deck; and by rising up about two inches above, they 

 turn all the water over the side, which may be thrown upon 

 the deck, and would otherwise come into the body of the boat. 

 Through holes in the ends of these cant-pieces are wrought 

 four )-ope-rings or grummets, for the purpose of receiving oars, 

 to assist the steerage, or ropes, on any particular occasion, and 

 the squares by these grummets show the places of four timber- 

 heads : two more also are placed by the foremast ; these are 

 convenient to fasten the cable to, and the side ones for head- 

 and stern-fasts when alongside a vessel. All the timber-heads 

 are about ten inches above the gunnel, and are secured by 

 stepping their heels into the thwart beneath, and then bolting 

 them to the breast-beams ; and they have a fore-and-aft pin of 

 five-eigliths iron passed through their heads, to )>revent the 

 turn of a rope from flying off. The darkest shachng repre- 

 sents the .sj)ace left in the boat as foot room for the rowers 

 clear of the floating capacity. 



About eight inclies below llie gunnel, on each side of (he 

 boat, is fixed a rack or general handle KK and EK, whereby a 

 number of men may at once take hold of the boat with good 

 cflect, and remove her from one place to another, or launch 

 her with readiness into the water. This rack takes the sheer 

 of the boat, and about an inch above it is a cork fender (GG 

 fig. 1) which runs with the sheer ollhe boat. This fender is 

 four inches deep by two and a half wide, so as to extend be- 

 yond the rack as a salegiiard to it, and to llie boat iii case of 



15 I'' 2 a blow. 



