204 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [88] 



GENERAL MEDICAL REPORT OF C. G. HEENDON, PASSED 

 ASSISTANT SURGEON, U. S. N. 



The U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross was built in 1882 by 

 the Pusey and Jones Company of Wilmington, Del. She is constructed 

 of iron ; is 234 feet in length over all, 200 feet on a 12-foot water line, : 

 27-1% feet beam (molded), 1 e^^g feet depth, net registered tonnage 384 ; dis- | 

 placement on 12-foot draught, which is her usual draught when ready for 

 sea, 1,000 tons. She is built on the water-tight compartment principle, 

 having six iron bulkheads, five of which are water-tight; these bulk- 

 heads divide her into seven compartments, six of which are water-tight. 

 Each bulkhead has a small gate in it, thus allowing, when necessary, 

 water communication between the different compartments. By means 

 of bilge connections, each compartment can be pumped out independ- 

 ently. The ship is supplied with two independent sets of compound 

 engines, which drive' right and left handed four bladed screws, and 

 propel her at a maximum speed of 12 knots. The ship is rigged as a 

 brigantine. Upon the main deck is the cabin, deck-house, and pilot- 

 house. The cabin is 38 feet in length, extends across the width of the 

 ship, is 7^2_ feet below decks, and has a cubic capacity of 2,233 feet; on 

 starboard side forward is an office, abaft this a state-room; correspond- 

 ing to these on port side is a pantry and state-room ; each of these state- 

 rooms has a cubic capacity of 580 feet. In each state-room is an 11-iuch 

 circular air-port. Between these apartments is a passage-way 5 feet 

 wide. Abaft these is the main cabin. On each side of cabin are two 

 circular air-ports, of same size as those in state-rooms. Cabin skylight 

 is 6 by 5 feet. As in all other parts of ship, artificial light is furnished 

 by the Edison incandescent system ; heat is furnished by steam from 

 main boilers, and ventilation by same apparatus as that in use in other 

 parts of the ship. Between cabin and deck-house is a deck space the 

 width of ship and 16 feet long. About center of this space is the ward- 

 room skylight, 7 by 5 feet. The deck-house, the top of which forms the 

 hurricane-deck, extends forward for 83 feet, is 13^*^2 feet wide and 1^^ 

 feet high. It is built of iron, sheathed with wood as far as the forward 

 fire-room bulkhead. This method of construction serves to protect what 

 may be termed the uncovered hatchways. Forward the fire-room the 

 (Jeck-house is of wood; any hatch in this part can be securely battened 

 down should the necessity arise. In the after part of the deck-house 

 is the stairway leading to the ward-room ; forward of this is the engine- 

 room, lighted and ventilated by a door in each side, and a window to 

 a side; the windows in the deck-house are 20 by 26 inches. The engine- 

 room hatch has a windsail, and is 6-^% ^y ^'N ^^t. 



Around the sides and after end of the engine-room is an iron gallery. 



