. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. a panic among her crew, whowere afraid to go below while the stormlasted. Another report was made toheadquarters. Other students of navalarchitecture were consulted, who notonly advised that the extra ballastbe taken out, but that four tons of leadbe attached to the frame or cage sup-porting the light. These instructionswere carried out, and the result w^as thesteadiest lightship on the east coast. A vessel will carry herself full of coaland behave herself in heavy when she comes to be laden withcopper ore or lead, a certain amount ofingenui
. Boat sailing in fair weather and foul. a panic among her crew, whowere afraid to go below while the stormlasted. Another report was made toheadquarters. Other students of navalarchitecture were consulted, who notonly advised that the extra ballastbe taken out, but that four tons of leadbe attached to the frame or cage sup-porting the light. These instructionswere carried out, and the result w^as thesteadiest lightship on the east coast. A vessel will carry herself full of coaland behave herself in heavy when she comes to be laden withcopper ore or lead, a certain amount ofingenuity has to be used in the storageof such heavy cargo to make her sea- 82 BOAT SAILING. worthy at all. If it were all stowed inthe bottom of the vessel she would rollso heavily in a seaway as to get dis-masted, and would probably become atotal wreck. It is now that the ex-perienced art of the stevedore comes man who follows the proper au-thorities would construct a bin or com-partment in which to stow this danger-ous freight thus :. The result would be highly satisfac^tory. The vessels center of gravitywould be the same as though she wereladen with coal, and her movements in aseaway would therefore be quite as easy. Another man might construct hiscompartment thus :
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