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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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the boats were built by Higgins & Ginord, of the same port; the steam 

 windlass was constructed by the Americau Ship Windlass Company, of 

 Providence, Rhode Island; the boiler was obtained from M. V. B. 

 Darling, of Providence, Ehode Island, and the remainder of the equip- 

 ment was purchased chiefly from Bliss Brothers and H. M. Greenough, 

 of Boston, Massachusetts. 



3. DATE OF LAUNCHING, ETC. 



She was launched on Tuesday, March 23, 1886, and went into com- 

 mission on June 5, 1886. 



» 

 4. DIMENSIONS. 



Her general dimensions are as follows : Length over all, 90 feet ; 

 length on load water-line, 81 feet 6 inches ; beam, extreme at deck, 22 

 feet 3 inches ; beam at water-line, 22 feet 9 inches ; depth from top of 

 keel to top of main-deck beam, 11 feet 1 inch; height of quarter-deck, 

 9 inches; height of bulwarks, deck to top of rail, 26 inches; height of 

 cabin-house, 27J inches ; length of cabin-house, 15 feet ; width of cabin- 

 house, forward end, 14 feet 7 inches; after end, 12 feet 6 inches; regis- 

 tered tonnage (net) 83.30 tons. 



SPARS.* 



Name. 



Mainmast, deck to hounds 



Mainmast head 



Maintop-mast, above cap 



Foremast, deck to hounds 



Foremast head 



Foretop-masfc, above cap 



Bowsprit, outside stem 



Jib-boom, outside of cap 



Jib-boom, cap to flying-jib stay hole . . 

 Jib-boom, cap to balloon-jib stay hole 



Main-boom 



Main-gaff 



Fore-boom , 



Fore-gaff 



Swinging boat-booms, each 



Feet. 



55 

 7 



28 

 52 

 8 

 26 

 19 

 17 

 11 

 15 

 58 

 28 

 23 

 24 

 20 



Inches. 



G 



10 



Greatest di- 

 ameter in 

 inches. 



1 



19 



G 





6 



9 



11 



19 



!) 

 t2l 

 91 



113 

 7 

 5 



* The masts and bowsprit are made of white pine and all other spars were originally of spruce. In 

 1888 the main-boom was made of Oregon pine. 



t The bowsprit is squaro between knight-heads, where its diameter is greatest. Outside of the stem 

 it is rounded and tapers to a diameter of 15 inches at end. 



\ Main-boom made in 1888 was 59 feet long, 1\\ inches in diameter. 



§ Main-gaff mado in 1887 was 30 feet long. 



