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Side and Interior Plan of Whaling Bark Alice Knowles of New Bedford Mass (302.78 tons)

Side and Interior Plan of a Whaling Bark

Side and Interior Plan of Whaling Bark Alice Knowles of New Bedford Mass."

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Key

  1. Bowsprit 21. Galley
  2. Paul-bitt 22. Skids for spare boats
  3. Cat-head 23. Mainmast
  4. Windlass and bitts 24. Mizzen-mast
  5. Figure-head 25. After house
  6. Forecastle companion 26. Boat davits
  7. Hawse-chocks 27. Whale boats
  8. Foremast 28. Boat bearers
  9. Forecastle 29. Main hatch
10. Fore hold shooks, gear, 30. Fore-hatch
11. Casks for oil (riders) 31. Booby hatch
12. Casks for oil (between decks) 32. Cabin skylight
13. Fore'tween decks 33. Wheel and screw box
14. Blubber room 34. Cranes for boats.
15. Try-works 35. Lower main hold
16. Steerage 36. After 'tween decks
17. Chain locker and pumps 37. Fore channels
18. After hold (stores, gear, &c.) 38. Main channels
19. After peak (captain's stores,&c.) 39. Mizzen channels
20. Captain's cabin

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 -- Plate 189: The Whale Fishery: Deck plan and sectional plan of whaling bark Alice Knowles, of New Bedford, Mass. (Sect. v, vol.ii, p.234.) 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.

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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 -- Plate 189: The Whale Fishery: Deck plan and sectional plan of whaling bark Alice Knowles, of New Bedford, Mass. (Sect. v, vol.ii, p.234.) 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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