PACIFIC COD FISHERIES. 43 
barks, barkentines, and schooners employed in the carrying trade 
of the Pacific and purchased for use in the fishery after they had 
attained varying ages. As the schooner rig has proven the most 
economical the vessels have gradually been altered until all are now 
of this rig. They vary in length from 102 feet 6 inches to 156 feet, 
and the net tonnage ranges from 138 to 413. 
In Alaska a different type of vessel has been evolved. As the 
companies owning several stations frequently desired to transport 
goods and fish from station to station, small sailing vessels were 
employed in the early days. These were equipped with large cargo 
capacity and were vessels which had previously been used in Cali- 
fornia waters for various purposes. As the trips of these vessels 
were necessarily uncertain, owing to their dependence upon sails 
alone, it was soon seen that power vessels would be more profitable, 
and about 10 years ago the first vessels of this type were sent up 
under sail. In order to make them suitable for navigation under 
the trying conditions prevailing in this section of Alaska they 
were greatly altered, but even then proved far from satisfactory. 
In 1912 the Union Fish Co., of San Francisco, had built on Puget 
Sound the first power vessel constructed to be devoted exclusively 
to the codfish industry. It was a schooner-rigged vessel and named 
the Union Jack. The vessel was 85 feet long, 18 feet beam, with a 
net tonnage of 39 tons. She was fitted with an 80-horsepower gaso- 
line engine. As the owners had in view the using of this vessel part 
of the year in fishing also, they tried to adapt her for both purposes, 
with the result that she proved somewhat unsatisfactory for either, 
and was sold in 1913. : 
In 1914 the same company built another power vessel, the Pirate, 
to replace her. She is a two-masted schooner with knockabout rig 
and has a length over all of 64 feet 6 inches and a breadth of 21 
feet. The hold is 6 feet 10 inches deep and 23 feet long, which 
provides a carrying capacity of 100 tons. The after cabin has 
accommodations for the captain and two men. The galley and mess 
room are also located here. The forecastle provides sleeping quarters 
for six men. The engine room is just forward of the pilot house, 
from which the main engine is controlled, thus permitting the cap- 
tain to operate the engine as well as the vessel. The propelling 
machinery consists of an 80-horsepower engine, while a 9-horse- 
power windlass is used for handling cargo. It is the company’s 
purpose to use this vessel in fishing during the summer months and 
in freighting in local waters the rest of the year. 
L'ransporting vessels—For a number of years the companies oper- 
ating shore stations in Alaska have been utilizing vessels of the same 
type and size in fishing as in taking cargoes of supplies north to the 
