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masts and extended at the forward end to form a winch house. This house accommodated 

 a steam winch, having cyhnders 8 in. in diameter and 12 in. in stroke. Hand steering 

 gear only was fitted. It was of the ordinar}^ barrel type, with purchase to the tiller at 

 rudder head, and was placed at the after end of the vessel. 



Separate hatches on the after deck provided access to a store room on the starboard 

 side and to a sail and canvas room on the port side. Two houses were built, one on 

 each side of the ship abreast of the screw aperture, for use as paint lockers, stores, 

 armoury, etc. 



Eight boats were provided in davits, the complement consisting of five 26-ft. whalers, 

 one 20-ft. cutter, and two Norwegian prams. 



The steam windlass was fitted on the upper deck, below the topgallant forecastle, 

 with a vertical spindle extending to a capstan head above. On its starboard side a 

 donkey boiler was placed, and a small coal bunker. The anchors and cables were 

 specially heavy, and of the ordinary Admiralty pattern. 



Below the upper deck, the 'tween decks at the forward end was occupied by store 

 rooms and chain lockers. Between two bulkheads immediately abaft the chain locker 

 was the galley, arranged on the centre line of the vessel, with compartments on either 

 side used as a laboratory, a sick bay and store rooms. The crew and petty officers were 

 berthed immediately abaft the galley space. 



Between the forward end of the machinery space and the after end of the crew space 

 was the wardroom, arranged centrally, with ten cabins on either side and across the 

 after end, and a large pantry on the starboard side. The engine and boiler space, 

 engineers' stores and workshop, wing coal bunkers, sail and canvas room and store 

 rooms were at the after end of the vessel. 



In the lower holds of the ship, below the accommodation spaces, the space was sub- 

 divided into stores and provision chambers with room for fresh-water tanks in the 

 forward part. These tanks had a capacity of 25 tons and were made of zinc plates cased 

 outside with wood. Amidships were coal bunkers, with ballast tanks below, the latter 

 so designed that they could be used for carrying coal when required. 



The propeller and rudder were both specially constructed, so that either could be 

 removed and lifted on to the deck through trunk ways built between the skin of the 

 vessel and the deck. This provision was made so that either the propeller or rudder 

 could be dealt with at sea in the event of damage. 



The propelling machinery originally installed is still in use and a description of it 

 will be found on p. 159, which deals with the vessel as at present arranged. A full and 

 interesting account of the design and construction of the ship as originally built will 

 be found in a paper read by Sir W. E. Smith on April 12, 1905, before the 46th Session 

 of the Institution of Naval Architects.^ 



Service with the Hudson's Bay Company. On completion of her service in Antarctic 

 exploration the 'Discovery' was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company, who con- 

 1 Smith, Trans. Inst. Naval Architects, xlvii, pt. i, 1905. 



