GOVERNMENT FISHERIES STEAMER " LILLA." 
This vessel is one of six trawlers purchased during the war from the Japanese Government 
for the purposes of mine sweeping. At the conclusion of the war she was handed over 
to the Fisheries Department and adapted to scientific work in the tropics. Built at Kobe- 
shi in Japan in 1913, the " Lilla " is of the usual trawler design, arid has the following 
dimensions and tonnage : — 
A — Trawl winch. 
B — Trawl gallows, 
C — Deep sea sounding 
machine. 
D — Nansen Petterson 
water bottle with 
boom. 
E — Sounding machine 
with boom. 
F — Eckman current 
meter with boom. 
H — Steam capstan. 
I — Steam windlass. 
J — Davits for dredges. 
K — Derricks. 
M — Funnel. 
O — Skylight and com- 
panion to Labora- 
tory. 
P — Skylight to cabin. 
R — Cabin on main deck 
with chart room 
above. 
S — ^Trawl wire quarter 
snatch block. 
T — Ventilators. 
U — Skylight of after cabin. 
V— Gallery. 
W — Engine room skylight. 
X — Fore-castle head. 
Y — Well-deck one foot 
below level of after 
deck. 
Gross tonnage 249^%%. 
Registered tomiage ISi^-^i^^. 
Length over all. 126 feet 
6 inches. 
Length between perpendi- 
culars, 120 feet. 
Moulded depth, 12 feet. 
Beam, 22 feet. 
Bunker capacity, 120 tons 
giving a radius of 2,304 
miles or twelve days 
steaming at 8 knots. 
Fresh boiler 'water, 3,500 
gallons. 
Fresh drinking water, 
4,000 gallons. 
Draught loaded, IGftet aft 
1 1 feet forward. 
Draught light: 11 feet 6 
inches aft, 8 feet 6 inches 
forward. 
Coal coixsumption from 
8 to 10 tons for 24 hours. 
Speed per hour, Welsh 
coal, 10 knots ; Indian 
coal, 8 knots 
Engines : Triple expaixsion 
surface condensing : I. 
H. P. 500 at 100 revo- 
lutioixs. 
Electric lighting. 
The trawl gear is on the 
port side, the gallows 
being placed as far aft 
as possible to give 
fullest spread obtain- 
able in a vessel of this 
size. The starboard 
trawl gallows have been 
removed so as to leave 
that side of the ship 
clear for hydrographi- 
cal work. 
The dimensions of the 
trawling net are : head 
rope 70 feet of 3 feet 
rope, foot rope 100 feet 
of 2i inches steel wire, 
depth 80 feet, otter 
boards 8 feet 6 inches, 
breadth 4 feet 4 inches. 
Trawl net mesh 5 inches 
at head tapering to 1 
inch at cod-end. Each 
drum of the trawl winch 
has 450 fathoms of 25 
inches steel wire. 
The Oceanographical equipment includes otter trawls, dredges, Agassiz trawls, Sher- 
brutznet," " Yngle " trawl, Xansen nets, Hensen quantitative net, ordinary silk tow nets, 
Eckman current meters, water bottles of various types, large Lucas sounding machine 
(5,000 fathoms), small Lucas sounding machine (200 fathoms), Knudsen deep sea thermo- 
meters, Richter reversing thermometers and accessory winding apparatus fitted to steam 
capstan. 
