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Anchor plates. — On each side of the bow, near the water line, and 

 directly beneath the cat-head, is a thick metal plate, about 3 feet square, 

 to prevent the bill of the anchor from injuring the plank when the 

 former is being catted in rough water.* 



Iron guards. — On each side of the bow-chocks, forward of the fore rig- 

 ging, there are galvanized iron guards for the anchor bills to rest upon. 

 There is also a galvanized iron guard of half-round iron, 1J inches wide, 

 on the after edge of the tanrail, to prevent the rail from being chafed 

 by lines or boat painters. 



Chain-plates. — There are three chain-plates on each side, abreast of 

 each mast, for the shrouds, made of galvanized Norway iron, 3 inches 

 wide by - x % inch thick, chamferred slightly at the edges. These are 

 let into the wales nearly flush, and are bolted through wales and ceiling 

 with 1 and 1^-inch galvanized iron bolts; these are keyed over rings on 

 the inside of the ceiling. There is also a similar chain-plate, not quite 

 so wide, on each side of each mast abaft the others, for the topmast 

 backstay. 



Ring-bolts and eye-bolts. — On each side of the stern, inside near the 

 deck, there is a 1-inch galvanized iron ring-bolt for crutch tackles, and 

 on top of the tanrail, on each side, is a ring-bolt of finch galvanized 

 iron for the boat-gripe lashings. On stanchions D, F, 0, 5, and 12 there 

 are ring-bolts of f inch galvanized iron, the diameter of the ring being 

 4 inches; those on stanchions O and P, forward of the fore rigging, are 

 for lashing the bill of the anchor to on each side, and for other neces- 

 sary purposes. 



There are also two similar ring-bolts on port side of the main deck, 

 near the main-hatch, and four on starboard side to lash boats to, and 

 smaller ones forward and aft of main-hatch to lash the booby-hatch to. 

 On each side, outside of the stern, is a stout galvanized iron eye-bolt 

 for the boat-gripe to hook into. There is a ring of finch iron in after 

 end of the bolt which holds each of the after lower dead-eyes for the 

 fore and main rigging. On each side, in the forward side of the grub 

 beam, there is a g-inch galvanized iron bolt for hooking in a tackle to keep 

 the foreboom steady when jibing in a gale, etc. On each side, forward 

 of the main-hatch, there is a 1^-inch galvanized iron eye-bolt which 

 goes through deck and beam, and keys over ring underneath the beam. 

 This is for the purpose of hooking to it a heavy snatch block through 

 which the beam trawl warp or other similar line may run. Aft of the 

 cat-head, on each side, is a f-inch galvanized iron bolt worked onto a 

 plate, which is fastened to the outside edge of the main-rail, for the fore- 

 boom tackle to hook into. There is a similar eye-bolt of g-inch iron on 

 each side forward of the cat-head for the inner dead-eye of the martin- 



* When the vessel was new the plates used were made of galvanized wrought-iron, 

 but at the time she was coppered in the winter of 1887, the iron plates were taken 

 off and piates of yellow-metal substituted. 



