SS Gabrielle 1:264

SS Gabrielle 1:264 DIMENSIONS MACHINERY Schedule of Rooms & Features of Vessel position, the engine telegraph, regular hand winch. Valuable stores and delicate apparatus are and sound powered telephones, and a voice kept here during the voyage to Antarctica. length 440 feet - reciprocating steam engine, top speed 12 1 Water Closets tube from the bridge ensure reliable 26 Refrigeration equipment. This compartment A small owner’s safe is installed in the beam 45 feet knots communications with the bridge. Two hand smells heavily of ammonia, and is filled closet. Often Starkweather or Moore will depth keel to main deck 39 feet 2 Showers, with one or more stalls fire extinguishers are in the engine room. with tanks, ductwork, dials and gauges, be here when awake. A telephone is draft,lightshi 10 feet - uses 0.14 ton of fuel per nautical mile at steam lines from the engine room, sea present. The owner’s safe contains draft, loaded ship 26 feet 11 knots 3 Three-person cabins in the forecastle, for 23 This dim, poorly-ventilated compartment is water pipes, air vents to the deck above, Starkweather’s .455 Webley pistol and the quartermasters and seamen for the bosun’s stores: cluster lights, etc. ammunition when he is aboard the ship, register tons 7,500 - maximum cruising range about 12,000 miles electrical extension cords, ropes, blocks, plus any items the expedition leaders feel CREW (48 TOTAL) 4 Three-person cabins in the aftercastle and canvas, tools, quite a lot of lumber, etc. 27 The captain’s cabin. A regular and a sound need safekeeping (such as the weapons of below, for the engineering crew, stew- A heavy padlock secures the hatch leading powered telephone are fitted. particularly unruly investigators). DISPLACEMENTS - master and 4 deck officers ards, storekeeper, carpenter, boatswain, in here. Five more fire extinguishers are Starkweather, Moore, and the captain all and 12 of the expedition members. A hand stored here, as well as any discharged 28 The captain’s off ice. A desk and shelves have the combination to this safe. light ship 4,550 tons - chief engineer and 4 engineer officers - fire extinguisher is located in the upper extinguishers. A small, locked wooden box hold books and papers on navigation, loaded ship 13,350 tons ship’s physician passageway. in a tall locker contains the blasting maritime law, polar conditions, history, 31 The bridge. Regular and sound-powered deadweight 8,800 tons caps and time fuse to be used by the etc. Again, regular and sound powered telephones, the engine telegraph, and - crew, stores 40 tons - radio operator, carpenter, boatswain, 5 First mate’s cabin. A desk and several expedition. If members of the expedition telephones are present. The ship’s safe is voice pipes allow the officers of the - fuel oil 1,690 tons storekeeper shelves hold books, navigational have brought firearms, they will be tagged here. The captain and the first mate both watch to control the ship. The ship’s - fresh water 160 tons instruments, journals, notes, the crew’s and kept here in a crate until the have the combination. Note that there is foghorn, whistle, and navigational lights - cargo 6,910 tons - 3 quartermasters, 9 seamen pay sheets, and details of the cargo expedition goes ashore. Two small hatches also a safe in the owner’s suite (see cabin are operated from here; the compass loading arrangements. A telephone is in the floor reveal ladders down to 30).A locked cabinet contains a chest and binnacle and ship’s wheel dom- inate the - 15 engine room crew (oilers, firemen, present. another, lower compartment, filled with smaller “doctor’s bag” with medical, middle of the compartment. A log indicator CARGO SPACE wipers, water tenders) rarely-used stores and broken equipment. surgical, and first aid equipment shows the ship’s speed, and an indicator 6 Chief engineer’s cabin. A desk and several sufficient to treat a dozen major dial shows the angle of the rudder rel- no. of holds 5 + reefer space - 1 chief steward, 5 other stewards (cooks, shelves hold books and references for the 24 A small compartment, which can be reached injuries. On this long voyage, however, ative to the keel of the ship. Racks and hatches 5 (45 feet x 25 feet) messboys, laundrymen, etc.) ship’s engines and structure, and for only through a bolted access plate in the the venture’s insurers have provided that cupboards on the walls con- tain signal cargobooms 6 x 1 toncapacity general mechanical knowledge. A telephone fo’c’s’le, with only some valve piping for treatment be by a physician, rather than flags, national flags, three sets of 6 x 10 ton capacity is present. the peak tank. the captain. Doctor Lansing has signed on semaphore flags, two flare pistols and 2 x 30 ton capacity INCIDENTAL EQUIPMENT for the voyage, increasing by one flares, five large pyrotechnic signal (forward end of #2 hold) 7-12 Two-person cabins, for three deck 25 The steering engine fills much of this Gabrielle’s normal complement. rockets, hand leads for measuring depth, loading speed 25 tons per gang hour - line gun, 18 life rings with water lights, officers, four engineer officers, the oddly shaped compartment. The rudder stock three pairs of binoculars, two hand sig- (18-man ‘gang’) for cargo flares and rockets, 4 life rafts ship’s radio operator, and two to four enters this room from below, and is 29 The radio room. Long and shortwave nal lamps, six flashlights, two hand fire items under 1 ton apiece expedition members. The radio operator’s rotated by a six-foot-radius geared quad- apparatus are located here. The telephone extinguishers, and other small items of (1 gang per hatch usually) - 4 lifeboats, 25 person capacity each; 2 of cabin has a small alarm bell which is rant. The quadrant itself is turned by a master switches are here, too, and of equipment. these are motorboats with a 6 knot top operated by the auto-alarm apparatus of two cylinder steam engine, about ten feet course a telephone. Several large speed FIREFIGHTING the ship’s radio. wide and three feet deep fore-and-aft; lead-acid batteries in a sturdy chest can 32 The chart room. The current ship’s log is this engine has no boiler, but is instead provide several hours of emergency kept here; a telephone is installed. The - The ship has a network of firehoses 13-18 Three-person cabins. connected to a heavily insulated transmitting power. As this vessel only depth-sounding machine controlled from powered by independent seawater pumps four-inch-diameter steam pipe from the has one radio operator aboard, it is here can measure down to 100 fathoms (600 19 The officers’ mess. A telephone is present. main engine room. A steering wheel allows fitted with an auto-alarm system which feet) while the ship is under way, using a - There are 14 CO2-charged hand fire A hand fire extinguisher is located here. the engine to be controlled directly from sounds alarm bells in the radio operator’s wire and weight unspooled automatically extinguishers, mostly amidships. Ten are this compartment, in emergencies; a cabin, on the bridge, and in this from the ship’s keel. Located at the back mentioned in the “Cabin Layout” section; 20 The galley, with a coal-burning range. A voice pipe, and regular and sound-powered compartment if the radio equipment detects end of the room is a rack of six unloaded the remaining four can be placed wherever hand fire extinguisher is located here. telephones are present, allowing the the Morse signal “a” repeatedly (dot-dash). .30-06 bolt action rifles, which are the keeper deems appropriate - Sand bridge to communicate with the man at the This automatic device is prone to failure. padlocked to the rack by a chain running buckets are liberally deployed in crew 21 The crew’s mess. A hand fire extinguisher wheel in almost any circumstance. Also in It sometimes activates for no reason at through their trigger guards. A locked areas is located here this room is the jury steering equipment, all, and it might well not detect a combination safe next to the rack holds a pair of heavy blocks with ropes and legitimate distress call, but it is better twelve 25-round boxes of .30-06 22 Top of the open space leading down into wires to pull the stock from side to side than nothing. The radio direction ammunition. The captain and the first the engine room. It is a five story climb with a large winch. The winch used would finding-loop is operated from here. officer have keys to the padlock and the down to room floor, through platforms, preferably be one of the steam mooring combination to the safe. pipes, machinery, generators, pumps, and winches on deck, but if no steam pressure 30 The owner’s suite. Rarely used in normal ladders. It is always hot and noisy when is available from the ship’s boilers, four service, it has been converted to an the engine is running. At the engineer’s sailors can steer the vessel by turning a office and lab for the expedition’s use. bridge deck 32 31 superstructure 1 1 2 28 27 29 1,2 30 main deck spaces 1 2 1 4a 4e 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 1 3 4b 4f 22 3 21 20 19 4c 4g 3 3 4d 4h 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 2 2 1 2 twen deck steam line equipment for from engine rom emergency hand stering stering engine twendeck twendeck twendeck twendeck twendeck refer space 26 uper portion engine rom 23 hatches 24 hold #5 hatch hold #4 hatch hatch hold #3 hatch hold #2 hatch hold #1 cowl ventilator tols & parts chain locker holds & engine rom engine rom lower hold #5 lower hold #4 #2 tank port boiler #3 tank shaft tunel engine lower hold #3 lower hold #2 lower hold #1 #1 tank peak tank stbd.

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