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TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGTCAL SOCIETY. 



As it is my desire and hope that this boat may 

 contribute much to the scientific exploration of the Irish 

 Sea in the future, it may be useful to readers of our 

 reports that I should put on record here those particulars 

 that give some idea of her size and fitness for work. She 

 is a screw yacht, built of teak, by Summers and Payne, 

 Southampton, in 1900, and measures about 70 feet over all 

 by 12 feet beam and G feet draft. The cuts (figs. 1, 2, &c.) 

 will show the fore-deck (with derrick, steam-capstan, and 



Fig. 2. — Equipment of Plankton Nets, &c, on board the 

 S.Y. " Ladybird." (Photo by Mr. E. Okell). 



reel of 200 fathoms of steel wire rope from which we work 

 the trawl and dredges) and the long counter aft where we 

 haul up the tow-nets and other smaller instruments. The 

 tonnage is 36 (yacht measurement), the horse-power about 

 55, and the " Ladybird " will steam all day at 8|- to 9 

 knots on a small consumption of coal. Some of 

 the other illustrations in this Report will show portions 

 of the boat with some of her scientific apparatus in use. 



