450 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [14] 



6 inches high above deck, worked with a molding. The sides and ends 

 are made with 3-iuch white pine plank fastened to posts at the corners, 

 and with a quarter-round post at each corner on the outside to flash the 

 plank. It is fastened to the beams with § to f inch bolts. Those of 

 the after end and starboard side are of yellow metal or copper, the rest 

 being galvanized iron. The top of the trunk is covered with 3 by 3- 

 inch clear white pine plank, fastened with composition spikes 4 J inches 

 long j the latter are covered with bungs set in white lead. The beams 

 are of hard pine spaced 18 inches, from center to center ; the ends are 

 bolted to sides of house with finch yellow-metal bolts. There is a 

 mahogany skylight on top of trunk 3 feet long by 2 feet wide. The 

 companion or cabin entrance is on the after end, at the port sidej it is 

 fitted with swinging doors and sliding top. 



Forecastle companion. — The forecastle companion is located imme- 

 diately abaft the foremast. It is built of white pine on a coaming of 

 white oak, provided with a slide-cover like the booby-hatches, and with 

 an adjustable door sliding in vertical grooves : it opens on the after end. 



Wheel-box. — The wheel-box is built of ash and black walnut, pan- 

 eled on the sides and ends. The top or cover is adjustable, made 

 quarter-round on the sides, and fitted with hasps for holding it in place. 

 The box is oblong iu form, 3 feet 4 inches long by 2 feet wide ; 2 feet 

 8 inches high on forward end, 2 feet 2 inches high on after end. There 

 is a slot cut in the forward end to allow the telltale, indicating the 

 position of the rudder, to work in. 



Cavil-chocks, — There is a cavil-chock on each side abaft the house, on 

 frames 17 and 18. It is made of oak, securely bolted to the stanchions 

 at each end, and has a panel worked on its inside, with a 3 by 5 inch 

 hole in it for receiving mooring hawsers, etc. 



A similar cavil is placed on each side on frames A and B at the for- 

 ward end of quarter-deck. A small cavil, 3J inches wide by 2 inches 

 thick, is fastened on each side to stanchions of frames G and H on main 

 deck, 7 and 8 and 13 and 14 on quarter-deck. 



Stanchion cavils. — There are two oak stanchions, with cross-cavils, 

 abaft the cabin-trunk, one on each side, for belaying the main sheet to; 

 these go through the deck, and their lower ends are bolted to the frames. 



Pin-rails, cleats, etc. — There is a pin-rail of oak fastened to the main- 

 rail on each side abreast of the main rigging, and holes are bored for 

 pins in the main-rail on each side abreast of the fore rigging. There 

 is a snatch cleat, provided with sheaves, on each bitt of the fore 

 and main fife-rails ; also on the stanchion abreast of starboard fore 

 rigging ; three cleats on each side forward for the head sheets, and a 

 stout oak cleat for the fore sheet on the forward side of the cross-bar to 

 the main fife-rail, which is a little above the deck. On each side of the 

 stern, about 8 inches above deck, is a cleat to which the crutch-tackles 

 are fastened. Besides these, there are the davit- tackle cleats on the 

 quarter- rail near the davits ; the necessary cleats, with sheaves, to the 



