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locker originally intended for potatoes, but now used for deck stores, is placed just abaft 

 the lamp locker. Hand steering gear is also provided and a screw quadrant brake ; the 

 space is too confined to permit the successful use of relieving tackles, although they are 

 provided for use in emergency. 



BOAT DECK (Plate IV) 



The boat deck, communicating with the fore deck by a steel ladder on either side, and 

 with the after deck by a teak ladder on the starboard side, carries the wardroom, sick 

 bay, wireless room and boats. The wardroom house, of steel, extends the width of the 

 ship, except for an alleyway on either side and across the fore end of the boat deck. It 

 contains the wardroom and the wardroom pantry, which is a long narrow compartment 

 set abaft the wardroom and communicating with it by a door. The wardroom (Plate VII, 

 fig. i) is entered from the boat deck by an insulated teak door on either side and from 

 the lobby below by a double staircase. It is panelled in light oak, with furniture of the 

 same wood, and contains two fore-and-aft tables with seating accommodation for twenty 

 persons. Plenty of light is admitted by Stone's square windows placed on three sides, 

 and there are two large steam heaters. In the after corners of the wardroom are two 

 small alcoves on either side of the staircase : that on the starboard side is fitted with 

 a settee and a small table and bookshelves, while on the port side is a wine locker. 

 A sideboard is placed in the middle line against the fore bulkhead of the wardroom. The 

 wardroom contains a series of pictures of earlier vessels which have borne the name 

 ' Discovery '. 



The pantry contains a sink, a hot press, a percolator and a milk emulsifying machine, 

 with a lift communicating with the galley below. Teak outside doors on both sides of 

 the pantry open on to the boat deck. 



Immediately abaft the wardroom house are a galley skylight abutting on the pantry 

 bulkhead, the funnel casing, two large stokehold ventilators, and a grating admitting 

 light to the fiddley. The funnel is large and elliptical, and has a rake of | in. per foot. 

 Abreast of the funnel casing two 25-ft. lifeboats built to Board of Trade requirements 

 are carried in ordinary drop chocks and manipulated by swing davits of standard pattern. 

 Hinged steel engine-room skylights fitted with glass ports, together with engine-room 

 ventilators, occupy the centre of the boat deck abaft the funnel casing, and immediately 

 abaft the skylight casing is a steel deck house containing the sick bay and wireless room. 

 Two 25-ft. Admiralty pattern whalers, equipped to Board of Trade requirements, and 

 housed and hoisted in the same manner as the lifeboats, are carried on either side of the 

 sick bay and wireless room. On top of the sick bay an i8-ft. part-decked motorboat with 

 a 12 H.p. Parsons engine is carried athwartships in specially strengthened chocks, and 

 the main derrick is used for hoisting the boat out and in. 



The wireless room is entered from the port side by an insulated teak door, the 

 operator's table and apparatus being arranged along the starboard side. The installation 

 consists of a modern li kilowatt valve transmitting apparatus with a separate emergency 

 installation which will give communication on medium wave-lengths. The ship is also 



