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Sheet-buffers. — The lower fore- and main-sheet blocks are provided 

 with patent rubber buffers to ease the jerk of the sheets. 



Calking. — The vessel was calked on the outside with three threads 

 of the best oakum in each seam. The house was calked with cotton, 

 and the deck and ceiling were calked with two and three threads of 

 oakum. All the seams were pitched or white-leaded. In addition, the 

 outside seams were puttied flush with the plank. 



Cementing and salting. — The spaces between the frames (except in the 

 fish- well) are filled flush with Portland cement as high as the under- 

 neath sides of the floors of the hold, and after this was done all the spaces 

 between the timbers were filled with salt to the deck. 



Ballast. — The ballast is pig-iron, stowed alongside of and abaft of the 

 well, as far aft as the forward bulkhead of the cabin 5 leaving, however, 

 sufficient space next the floor for operating the cocks on the pipes 

 which connect the water- tanks. She carries about 40 tons of ballast, 

 including the cement between the frames previously referred to. 



Pumps. — There are two patent iron pumps abaft the mainmast, and 

 one copper pump forward of the well. The latter is provided with an 

 adjustable upper box that can be removed when not in use, and with a 

 screw top which fits in flush with the deck. From the lower end of the 

 copper cylinder, forming the chamber of the pump, a 3-inch lead pipe 

 (cased with wood above the floor of the hold) extends down to the keel- 

 son where it is divided into two parts, one of which goes on each side 

 of the keelson, so that both bilges can be pumped dry. 



Beam-trawl roller. — Aft of the fore rigging, on the port side, is an 

 iron roller for the beam-trawl warp to run over, fitted in between two 

 stanchions. The main-rail is cut over this roller, and arranged on 

 hinges so that it may be turned back when the roller is in use. A sec- 

 tion of bulwarks is also made so that it can be removed. 



Iron warping -chocks. — Oft each side of the taffrail is let in and fast- 

 ened' a galvanized iron warping-chock of the ordinary pattern, and 

 similar chock is fastened to the top of each bow-chock near the knight- 

 heads. 



Davits. — The davits are made of galvanized wrought iron, 3 inches ii 

 diameter, bent to a proper curve, fitted with suitable braces, and eacl 

 provided with a block at outer end to receive davit-tackle fall. 



Haivsepipes. — The hawse-pipes are made of galvanized cast-iron, cast 

 to a special mold to fit the vessel. 



Chain pipes. — The chain-pipes, of galvanized iron, are placed abaft 

 the forecastle companion, about 5 inches diagonally from the after cor- 

 ners; the chain hawsers lead through these into the boxes below. The^ 

 are 5 inches diameter inside.* 



* As the vessel was originally constructed, there were pipes leading from beneatl 

 the windlass to the space underneath the forecastle floor, where the chains were 

 first stowed, while the steam windlass was on board. When the steam windlass was 

 removed and a wooden windlass put on, a box was built to receive the chains abaft 

 the forecastle bulk-head, aud the location of the chain pipes was changed. 



