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WHALE-BOAT –
Side And Interior Plan.

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Plate 192.

SIDE AND INTERIOR PLAN OF WHALE-BOAT.

[Length, 30 feet.]
1. Bow, chock, and roller. 15. Rudder.
2. Clumsy cleat, and hoisting eyebolt. 16. Rowlock for steering, oar.
3. Crotch for bow harpoon irons. 17. Hoisting eyebolt.
4. Harpooncr thwart. 18. Tiller.
5. Paddles. 19. Loggerhead.
6. Harpoon irons, lances on opposite side. 20. Boom for sail.
7. Rowlocks for oars. 21. Center case (small tub for 75 fathom-liue other side).
8. Bow thwart. 22. Large tub for whale line, 225 fathoms.
9. Midship thwart. 23. Gaff for sail.
10. Tub thwart. 24. Mast for sail.
11. After thawrt. 25. Keel and floor timbers.
12. Boat spades and waifs ( i.e. small flags to locate dead whale). 26. Main sheet.
13. Lantern keg. 27. Gunwale streak plank, 9 inches in widest part, generally colored blue in new boats. Timbers of boat of this size, about 6 inches apart (generally).
14. Piggin (for bailing boat, &c.) 28. Center-board partly down.
29. Boat's Ceiling.

Note: Oars omitted on this draft, full length being fiven on fron and interior plan.

Source:

George Brown Goode.
      The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States "Prepared through the co-operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates
    Section V: Plates -- 192. Side and interior plan of whale-boat equipped with apparatus of capture, &c.
(Sect. v, vol.ii, p.241, 258.)
Drawing by C.S. Raleigh.
(History and Methods of the Fisheries, In two volumes, with an atlas of two hundred and fifty-five plates)
    Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.

and

George Brown Goode
      The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States "Prepared through the co-operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a staff of associates
    Section V: Plates -- 192. Side and interior plan of whale-boat equipped with apparatus of capture, &c.
(Sect. v, vol.ii, p.241, 258.)
Drawing by C.S. Raleigh.
(History and Methods of the Fisheries, In two volumes, with an atlas of two hundred and fifty-five plates)
Serial 2003 -- Miscellaneous Documents of the Senate of the United States (First Session of the Forty-seventh Congress, 1881-'82), Vol 11, 47th Congress, 1st Session, Mis. Doc. 124, Part 7.
    Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.

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