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Skipper Bruce D.S.M.

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The cabin is situated aft. Abaft the engine room, is a spacious apartment being some 20' x 18' x 7' fitted with bunks, two on each side. The cabin is also equipped with necessary sitting accommodation and a triangular table. Skipper and Chief Engineer each have a small room with a bunk at the fore-end of the cabin. Artificial light (acetylene gas) has to be resorted to continuously as only a very little daylight struggles through the 6" diameter deck lights, which are let into the deck. The cabin skylight is always closed. The Entrance to the cabin is also common to the engine room and galley, but the condition of the atmosphere does not detrimentally affect the appetites of the "in-patients", who are always prompt to answer the gong. Sleeping accommodation for the Skipper, Chief Engineer, 1st, 2nd hands, and cook is provided in the bunks above mentioned. The deck hands and firemen "sleep out"; they are accommodated forward. To all those who take a voyage in a trawler it is necessary that their sea legs be found quickly. It will contribute to their enjoyment even if it robs the crew of some amusement. To find one's sea legs quickly is not a simple operation with the vessel continually rolling and tossing in a manner most unsympathetic. Rolling chocks are practically always necessary at meal times.