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for use on all classes of vessels. Dimensions, diameter of base, 2 feet; 

 thickness, 4 inches;* diameter of top, 19 inches; diameter of bellows, 

 15 inches; height, 20 inches; height of cone, 6 J inches; diameter of cone 

 (at base), 9 inches; thickness of brass rods, five-eighths of an inch; 

 length of lever, 4 feet. 



Tin fog-horn. — There is a common, reed, tin fog-horn to be blown by 

 the mouth. This is about 3 feet 6 inches long. 



0.— BOATS AND LIVE CARS. 



There are five boats, namely : one purse-seine boat, one stern-boat or 

 dinghy, and three dories. Besides these, there are three boat shaped 



live cars. 



17. SEINE-BOAT. 



The seine-boat is like the ordinary type used in the purse-seine mack- 

 erel fishery. It is sharp forward and aft, and is carvel built. The frames, 

 gunwales, etc., are of white oak, and the plankiug is white swamp ce- 

 dar, fastened with the best quality of galvanized iron. The boat is fit- 

 ted with special galvanized malleable iron appliances, as specified in the 

 detailed description. She is provided with a schooner rig of spars and 

 sails, and carries, when sailing, a jib tacked down to the stem-head, a 

 loose-footed gaff foresail, and a sprit and boom mainsail, the latter be- 

 ing much smaller than the foresail. The foresail is bent to hoops, and 

 has two reefs in it, The mainsail and jib are not provided with reefs. 

 The sails are made of cotton drilling, and, like the sails of the vessel, 

 have been treated with Nelson's anti-mildew preparation. They have a 

 total area of 50 square yards. All the spars are of spruce. There are 

 special casings under the thwarts into which the spars are stepped so 

 that the latter can be put in or taken out without interference with fish 

 or nets that may be in the boat. The latter is fitted with an oak rud- 

 der that can be used when sailing, and which is hung by gudgeons to 

 straps that are attached to the stern-post, and so formed as not to en- 

 tangle the seine when the latter is being used, at which time the rudder 

 is unhung. The boat is also provided with a white oak, brass bound, 

 water-breaker, holding 5 gallons. 



The following is a detailed description of the boat : Length, over all, 

 33 feet; breadth of beam to outside of planking, 7 feet 2 inches; depth 

 from top of keel to top of gunwale, amidships, 2 feet 6 inches. 



Keel. — The keel is made of oak in two parts, commonly called " part- 

 ners" or sister keels. The lower or outer portion is 2£ by 2| inches. 

 The inner " partner " is 4f by 1 inch. This is nailed to the lower part 

 with galvanized iron sheathing nails. 



Stem and stern-post. — Of " pasture" white oak; bent to the proper 

 form, the upper end of each nearly perpendicular, and from thence curv- 



# The thickness of iron averages about three-sixteenths of an inch ; the thickness 

 given above relates to the vertical dimension of base. 

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