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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
TJiulerneatli the forecastle are water-closets for officers and men, iietty officers’ 
room, lamp-room, paint locker, steam windlass, and carpenter’s bench. Two scuttles 
give access, one to the store-rooms, magazine, etc., forward of the collision bulkhead, 
and the other to the berth deck. 
Jiert/i declc: This includes the space 40 feet aft from the collision bulkhead, and 
is 7 feet 10 inches between decks. It is supplied with light and air by the lore hatch, 
fore Seattle, and by eight 8-inch airports, four on each side. Backs for stowing bags 
and hammocks are fitted along the sides; the space abaft the fore hatch is occupied 
l)y the reeling engine, and near the forward bulkhead are two scuttles opening into 
the ice boxes. 
Ice-hoxes: These occupy the space in the hold 7 feet aft from the collision bulk- 
head, the whole width of the ship. A strong fore and aft bidkhead amidships divides 
this space into two compartments; 
the sides and ends are fitted double 
with an intervening air space of 4 
inches, which is filled with proper 
nonconducting material. The in- 
side is lined thronghout with gal- 
vanized iron, and, at the after 
outboard corners, lead pipes with 
suitable teips drain the water into 
the bilge. The capacity of the ice 
boxes is about 3 tons each, G tons 
in all. 
Cold-room : The after part of 
the spaces in the ice-boxes A for 
2 feet is partitioned off by an 
athwartship bulkhead to form the 
cold-rooms or refrigerators B, to 
which access is gained by doors 
which open into the forehold. Six- 
inch oiienings e, at the top and 
bottom of the cold-rooms, com- 
municate with the ice-lockers A, 
and a circulation of air is induced 
as the warmer air of the former 
rising passes above into the latter, 
becomes cooled by the ice, falls and reenters the cold-rooms by the lower openings, to 
become warmer again and rise as before. Back shelves c to hold whatever is desired 
are fitted against the bulkheads d. 
Store-rooms^ magazine^ hrig, etc. : Forward of the berth-deck, and separated from 
it by the collision bulkhead, is a fore-and-aft passageway to which access is gained 
by a scuttle and stairs underneath the top-gallant forecastle. 
This i)assage opens forward into the yeoman’s store-room, to the right into the 
brig, lighted and ventilated by an 8-inch air port, and to the left into the dredging 
store-room, similarly furnished with light and air. 
Throngli this ]>assage, also, the chain pipes ]>ass down and aft, taking the chain 
from the windlass to the lockers below, and from the forward end of the i)assage a 
