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Others throughout the ship, are of heavy pattern, strongly made of doubled teak and 

 insulated. The doors of the laboratories and lobby are exposed in the waist of the ship, 

 and it was found impossible to keep them watertight in heavy weather. To overcome this 

 difficulty special portable steel storm doors are provided for clamping over the teak 

 doors during bad weather. 



The lobby, which is panelled in light oak, is provided with small settees in the two 

 forward corners, while the two after corners are divided off by steel bulkheads. On the 

 port side aft is a small room with wash basin for officers' use, entered from the lobby, and 

 here a door is fitted giving access under cover to the after part of the vessel. This is an 

 emergency door only required in heavy weather when the watertight doors in the screen 

 bulkheads are closed. On the starboard side are two officers' lavatories, which are 

 entered from the deck. The central part of the lobby is occupied by double staircases, 

 one leading up to the wardroom and the other down to the officers' accommodation. 



Abaft the lobby and between it and the boiler casing is placed the ship's galley, 

 entered from either side by halved steel doors and fitted with an oil-fuel range with two 

 ovens and the usual galley equipment. 



The stokehold doors, also of steel, adjoin the galley, and immediately abaft the stoke- 

 hold entrance are transverse bulkheads, pierced by doors which give access to the 

 internal alleyways leading aft. 



The two square spaces on each side of the galley and stokehold entrances were found 

 to be difficult to negotiate in heavy weather, being situated just in the waist where the 

 ship has least freeboard, and bulkheads have since been built extending diagonally 

 across from the after corner of the lobby. The bulkheads are fitted with hinged storm 

 doors and readily throw off any heavy water that may come on board. The enclosed 

 space abaft the bulkheads has been found very useful for the storage of meat and ready- 

 use galley stores. 



The two blocks of houses abaft the stokehold, outside the covered alleyways, are sub- 

 divided by steel bulkheads into spaces which are put to a variety of uses. On the star- 

 board side, commencing forward, is the ship's office, with the usual fittings and with the 

 canteen opening from it. Immediately abaft the canteen is the petty officers' lavatory, 

 while the after space on this side is fitted as a net store. On the port side, forward, is 

 a small compartment originally intended for galley stores ; but since the construction 

 of the bulkheads enclosing the galley spaces it has been converted into a carpenter's 

 shop, and now contains benches, a vice, and racks for carpenter's tools. Next to the 

 carpenter's shop is the instrument store (p. 97), and abaft of this store is the petty 

 officers' bathroom. The after compartment of the port side block is the largest of all, 

 and is arranged as a laboratory (Plate IX, fig. 2), with one door opening into the alley- 

 way and another on to the after deck. 



In the alleyway on the starboard side is a fire locker built into the engine-room casing 

 and fitted with a hydrant and storage space for a supply of Foamite. The Foamite is 

 provided for extinguishing oil fires, but the hydrant can also be used as an ordinary fire 

 main. 



