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long, to its limit. There is a box binnacle on the starboard side of the 

 cabin, 26 inches high and 14 by 15 inches square (outside) ; the binnacle 

 lamp is hung to starboard of the box so as to throw the light upon the 

 compass. On the starboard side, aft, is a sideboard and china-closet, 

 and between the sideboard and companion- stairs is a door giving en- 

 trance to the sail-room. Just forward of the foot of the cabin stairs, 

 nearly amidships, is a scuttle leading into a small store-room beneath 

 the floor. In the forward part of the cabin floor, each side of the mid- 

 ship line beneath the table, is a scuttle leading to corresponding scut- 

 tles in the top of the water tank. 



On the starboard side, in front of the forward berth, are two scuttles 

 which form a cover to the bath-tub that is located beneath the floor, 

 and which is provided with proper piping for filling it from the deck. 



The cabin is heated by a stove. 



Sail-room. — The sail room occupies the extreme after end of the vessel, 

 next to the cabin. ■ It has a locker built of white pine on each side, and 

 a small floor placed at the proper height ; otherwise it is unfinished. 

 In this are stowed the spare sails, cordage, blocks, awnings, paints, etc. 



Water-tanks. — Forward of the well, on each side, is an iron water- 

 tank, extending several feet underneath the after end of the forecastle 

 floor and having a capacity of about 270 gallons ; the two tanks hold 

 some 540 to 570 gallons of water. Beneath the cabin floor is a wooden 

 tank (built to conform with the shape of the vessel, and divided into 

 two main sections by a tight bulkhead running fore and aft) which 

 holds about 1,500 gallons of water. This is connected by piping with 

 the tanks forward, so that water can be draughted from the after tank to 

 the iron tanks. It also has adjustable cross bulkheads, that are per- 

 forated with holes, to prevent the water from swashing. 



8. WINDLASS AND ENGINES. 

 (See Plates xn and xiii.) 



The windlass originally put upon the Grampus was fitted to be oper- 

 ated by steam or hand, being of the pump-brake pattern, built by the 

 American Ship Windlass Company, of Providence, Rhode Island. It 

 had two loosely mounted wild cats fitted for 1-iuch or LJ-inch chains, 

 and they were adapted to lock to rigidly secured driving-heads keyed 

 on the shaft and each controlled by a friction-band and lever. The 

 windlass was provided with adjustable gypsy ends to be used for warp- 

 ing and for heaving in the beam-trawl. It was also fitted with adjust- 

 able whelps for the port wild-cat, so they could be put on whenever it 

 was intended to use the steel wire hawser. The windlass-bitts were 

 bolted to an iron bed-plate. 



It was driven by a pair of right-angle engines of 35 horse-power, 

 which were bolted underneath the deck upon which the windlass stood. 

 The steam-power was communicated through a worm-shaft operating 

 upon a worm-wheel on the windlass. 



