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and could be lowered when the nets were out,i while she had a running bowsprit. 
There were two large oblong hatchways just abaft the foremast, the after one of which 
extended athwartships, and both were provided with rollers on their sides to lessen the i 
friction when the nets were being transferred to and from the hold, which was divided I 
into pens or bins, for the reception of gear and fish. There was a small forecastle at 1 
the bow, entered by a companion placed alongside of the mainmast. There were two ' 
small hatches on either side of the deck, just forward of the smoke-stack. Aft of the 
net and fish rooms was the engine-room, while at the extreme after part of the vessel 
was the cabin, entered by a small companion which stood athwartships close abaft 
the mizzen-mast. The vessel steered with a tiller. On each side of the bow was a 
warp-chock with three sheaves. These sheaves were for the purpose of lessening the 
friction when the net is being hauled in. The dimensions of the vessel represented by 
this model are as follows: Length over all, 63 feet; on keel, 58J feet; extreme beam, 
16^ feet; draught aft, feet; height of mainmast above deck, including pole topmast 
of 13 feet — the whole spar is one piece — is 52 feet; bowsprit, outside stem, 24 feet; 
main gaff, 24 feet; mizzen-mast above deck, 36 feet; spanker-boom, 24 feet; spanker- ' 
yard, 18 feet. 
•The steamers built by Allan & Co. have no provision for lowering tbeir mast, and, indeed, there 
seems little use for it, since a steamer can, if necessary, always turn ahead slowly and take any heavy 
strain off the net. 
