FRESH-HALIBUT FISHERY. 7 
DESCRIPTION OF SEOTIONAL DRAWING OF HALIBUT SCHOONER, SHOWING PORT SIDE OF 
SCHOONER. 
(1) Hawse-hole; C, knight-heads. (2) Inside part or “heel” of bowsprit. (3) End view of 
the middle part of the windlass, between the patent and windlass-bit on starboard side, showing 
position of the whelps on windlass. (4) Pawl-bit. (5) Position of the windlass beam. (6) Posi- 
tion of jib-sheet traveler. (7) Foremast. (8) Forward companion-way. (9) Fore-hatch; this is 
used for the purpose of hoisting in and out water and provision barrels; in moderate weather it is 
covered with a grating and serves the purpose of ventilating the forehold and forecastle. (10) 
The forehold, where the stores and water are kept; the water (28 to 30 barrels) is stowed in differ- 
ent ways to svit the ideas of the cook or skipper, but generally on the starboard side—often- 
times two large casks are carried amidships—and a pantry is built on the port side, where the 
‘heavy stores” (flour, beef, &c.) are stowed on the head, that is, such as are open and being used, 
while the “small stores” (butter, lard, sugar, &c.) are kept in firkins, half-barrels, &c., and secured 
from being upset by setting in places built for them as shown in the drawing. A coal-pen is built 
between the pantry and forward bulkhead to the ice-house. The coal-pen is sometimes built on 
the starboard side next to the forecastle bulkhead. (11) Forecastle steps. (12) Cupboard, from 
deck to locker; there is another of the same size on the starboard side, just forward of the fore- 
mast. (13) After section of the table with the leaf turned up; this also turns back against the 
mast, the leaves folding alongside of the mast. (14) Locker on port side. (15) Forecastle floor. 
(16) Forward section of table; this is stationary, the forward end fastening to the pawl-bit, and 
the after end supported by an upright standard. (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22) Positions of the 
upper and lower berths on port side; No. 22, being in the fore-peak, is small, and is not used 
for sleeping purposes, but is used for the storage of lanterns, kerosene-cans, &c.; there are only two 
row, of sleeping bunks on the starboard side; the berths abreast of the after row are used by the 
cook as lockers for putting his cooking utensils, &c.,in. (23) The position in which the cook-stove 
stands on the starbord side (the stove is always carried on starboard side). (24) Pawl-bit, under deck. 
(25) Forward pen in the ice-house, with pen-boards up, or shipped in place. (26) Forward bulk- 
heaG vo ice-house, built of double boards, with tarred paper between, from side to side of vessel. 
(27) Stanchion and partition between the forward and second pen. (28) Second pen, showing how 
the ice is stowed. (29) Shows how halibut are iced in a pen, always white side up, and lying 
upon each other, so that they are slanting instead of flat in the pen; one-half of the tier is stowed 
head towards the side of the vessel, and the other half out, as shown in the drawing, both forming 
what is called a tier. (30) After pen in forward ice-house. (31) Bulkhead between the forward 
and after ice-house, built same as the forward one. (32) Pumps. (83) Ballast under the plank 
floor of the ice-house; this plank floor is laid on sleepers, which extend from side to side of the 
hold; these sleepers are, or ought to be, supported by stanchions under them. (34) Forward pen in 
after ice-house. (35) After pen. (36) Salt-pen; it is larger than this in some vessels. (37) Checker- 
plank. (38) Main hatch. (389) Checker-plank. (40) Break of the quarter deck. (41) Mainmast. 
(42) After hatch; (a) skylight on top of house; (b) stovepipe. (43) After, or cabin, companion-way. 
(44) Wheel. (45) Wheel-box. (46) Taffrail. (47) Vacauat place aft of cabin, under deck; used for 
the storage of gear, rope, &c. (48) Cabin stairs, called “steps” by fishermen. (49) After berth. 
(50) Partition between the berths. (51) Forward berth. (52) Locker, or seat, going around the 
cabin. (53) Stove. (54) Position of trap-door in the cabin floor, by which the coal is reached. 
The above is the general arrangement, though in the matter of the ice-house a few vessels may 
have some slight differences of construction that are of minor importance. 
