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stations and in bringing back the fish caught by the station fisher- 
men. Frequently the regular fishing vessels would be, and are still, 
sent north on this work during the winter season. As stormy 
weather with plenty of fog is the rule in the North Pacific Ocean, 
many of these vessels have met with an untimely end on the inhos- 
pitable shores in this region. 
In 1913 the Union Fish Co., of San Francisco, had built a power 
schooner for this work. ‘his vessel, which was named the Golden 
State, has a length of 145 feet, a breadth of 32 feet, and a depth of 
11 feet 6 inches, and in addition to her engines is fully rigged as a 
three-masted baldheaded schooner. She has a carrying capacity of 
more than 500 tons. 
The propelling machinery consists of a 150-horsepower four-cylin- 
der distillate engine. It is connected to a two-bladed propeller 
through a disk clutch and spur-gear type of reverse. The two- 
bladed propeller is used in order that the blades may be placed in a 
vertical position when the sails are being used, and in this way the 
drag of an idle propeller is eliminated to a large extent. The en- 
gine is so equipped that it can be handled at slow speed with the 
ease characteristic of a steam installation. 
The vessel has also a complete electric hghting plant with dynamo 
and two sets of bilge pumps and a force or fire pump, all run off a 
countershaft, which is in turn run either from the main engine or, 
when that is not running, is driven by a 4-horsepower single-cylinder 
engine installed in the engine room. Besides the quarters for its 
crew of 8 men, the vessel has cabin accommodations for 10 pas- 
sengers. 
Boats——A considerable proportion of the dories in use with the 
fishing vessels and at the shore stations in Alaska were manufac- 
tured in New England and brought to this coast overland. A few 
of the coast boat builders are now manufacturing them after the 
eastern model. The hand-line dories are usually 14 feet long, bottom 
measurement. Occasionally trawl lines are employed, in which event 
larger dories must be used in order to accommodate the additional 
man needed and the extra amount of gear required. These large 
dories are usually 15 feet in length on the bottom. 
A few years ago one of the companies began the use of line trawls 
at its shore station and employed round-bottomed sailboats of the 
well-known Columbia River type in working them. The trawling 
experiment was soon abandoned and the boats either sold or put to 
other uses. 
During the season of 1914 the schooner Fortuna took north with 
her 12 portable engines suitable for attachment to the regular dories. 
These were sold to the fishermen and were to be paid for out of the 
