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room is provided with a sink, running sea and fresh water, a gravity flow 

 alcohol tank, four lockers for glassware, and a work table running the 

 full width of the room providing space for five workers. Beneath the table 

 are eight tiers of drawers, four in a tier, and on the after wall are eight 

 cabinets. The drawers are stocked with fishing tackle and ammunition, 

 the cabinets with rods, reels, and firearms. Overhead storage space pro- 

 vides for the long-handled dipnets and harpoons used from the ship's side 

 or from the launches. 



Finally, aft of the fish and tackle room, there is the windbreak, a 

 recess, open astern but otherwise walled in, that was formerly used as 

 sleeping accommodation. As the need for laboratory space increased, the 

 four bunks were removed, and in their place were built tables for three 

 additional workers. The locker accommodation overhead is used exten- 

 sively for collecting equipment. 



In the open deck space astern are the capstan, run by a 5-horsepower 

 motor, the escape hatch, and the lazarette hatch. 



Forward on the starboard side is the pump locker with heating con- 

 trols and filters and five 60-gallon sea-water tanks for living marine speci- 

 mens. Amidships is a gangway, not used very extensively, since in ordi- 

 nary operations the men board the small boats over the ship's side. A rope 

 ladder is available for use at any point. There are 32-foot booms for both 

 port and starboard sides, for use when the ship is at anchor and several of 

 the boats are in the water. The port boom is stored on the fidley when 

 not in use. 



Lower or A deck. Below the main deck level the ship is divided by 

 four watertight bulkheads into five watertight compartments, any three 

 of which will keep the ship afloat. In the peak of the lower or A deck 

 there are a water-trim tank, the chain locker, and officers' and crew's 

 lavatories and showers, immediately after which is a hatch at the forward 

 end of the passage that goes aft to the engine room gallery. On the port 

 side there are four staterooms (crew's quarters), officers' messroom and 

 library, linen lockers, storeroom for machine parts, room for the master 

 gyro compass, and battery room with Exide ironclad batteries of 900 

 ampere-hour capacity; on the starboard, four staterooms (crew's quar- 

 ters), crew's messroom, crew's pantry, well-equipped photographic dark- 

 room, refrigerator room, and milling machine. The staterooms are certi- 

 fied for either two or three seamen. 



The engine room, amidships, is large, 46 feet in length, with a six-foot 

 balcony on the lower or A deck surrounding the main engines. On the 



