DEEP-SEA EXPLORATION. 
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scuttle ami stairs lead down to tlie magazine iiassage and magazine, and to the fore- 
imak below them. 
Mainhold: Below the berth-deck the space from the cold-room aft is taken ui) by 
the mainhold, steerage store-room, engineer’s store-room, bread-room, sail-room, and 
water-tanks. Access is gained by a hatch directly under the fore hatch. 
Steerage: Opening from the after end of the berth deck is the steerage, containing 
four double-bertli state-rooms, G feet G inches in length, two on each side, and a mess- 
room 13 feet in length between. It is lighted and ventilated by an S-inch air-port in 
each room, a 12-inch ventilator cut through the deck just abaft the foremast^ and the 
door opening from the berth deck. Each room has an upper and lower berth 30 inches 
wide, a bureau, washstand, toilet racks, drawers, shelves, etc. On the forward bulk- 
head of the mess-room is an open pantry. 
Lower or main laboratory (plates vi and vii): Abaft the steerage, but separated 
from it by a water-tight iron bulkhead, is the lower laboratory immediately below the 
upiier laboratory, through which only can it be entered. This room extends quite 
across the ship, is 20 feet fore and aft, 7 feet 10 inches between decks, and is furnished 
with light and air by six 8-inch air-ports, two 12-inch deck-lights, and the hatch 
leading above. 
Ample and convenient storage cases and lockers are i)rovided for alcohol tanks, 
jars, and specimens in bottles of all sizes; work tables are fitted along each side; in 
the port after-corner is a photographic dark-room with a lead-lined sink and running 
water; on the opposite side is a medical dispensary, and along the bulkhead between 
the two is the chemical laboratory. Between the beams overhead are slings and 
hooks for stowing dip nets, scooi) nets, harpoons, spears, lances, and other fishing 
appliances. 
Laboratory store-room, : A hatch and stairs lead to the store-room below, a closed 
iron box, 20 feet in length and the whole width of the vessel, capable of being isolated 
from the rest of the ship and filled with steam at short notice in case of lire. Here 
are stowed alcohol in tanks, nets, sieves, etc., for which suitable lockers have been 
provided. Below this store-room is a small space next the skin of the ship where the 
sinkers used in sounding are stored. 
Engine-room^ fire-room^ and bnnlcer space: The engineer’s deimrtment is abaft the 
laboratories, and occupies .57 feet 8 inches in the hold, 47 feet 8 inches on the berth 
deck, and 20 feet in the deck-house. 
Ward-room (plate viii) : The whole space from the laboratories aft to the ward- 
room is occupied by the engines, boilers, bunkers, etc. The ward-room is 38 feet in 
length, the full width of the ship, and 7 feet 10 inches in height from deck to deck. 
It is lighted and ventilated by seven 8-inch air ports on each side, a skylight G by 5 
feet overhead, and the stairway leading to the deck above. 
The siiace on either side of the stairway is occirpied by the pantry on one side, 
and the chief engineer’s room on the other; the latter communicating by a door with 
the engine-room immediately forward. Abaft these rooms a space 13 feet in lengtli 
and the whole width of the ship is reserved for an athwartship extension table, seat- 
ing, at most, twelve persons. Along the sides of this space are fitted cushioned sofa 
transoms. 
There are four rooms on each side, the starboard after one being furnished as a 
bath-room, the others containing a berth, bureau, washstand, drawers, lockers, etc. 
