Word: cockpit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...several new features, the principal result or which will be to make the shell lighter. The first point where a new idea comes in is in the space between the gunwale and the "rising." This piece of wood, which is parallel with the gunwale, usually stops at the cockpit but in the new plan it is carried to the end of the boat. Then the gunwale is to be made five pounds lighter. A thin brace is to be fixed across the square spaces and next to the ribs of the craft, which will more than make up the loss...
...four inches more freeboard than the old launch, will be slightly fuller forward, not so full amidships, and will have two feet more water-line, which is expected to increase the speed of the boat. Her frames will be of oak and she will be planked with cedar. A cockpit will run nearly her full length and will be covered with a movable canvass awning. The engine and boiler will be housed. The launch will have a displacement of 16,956 pounds. Reilly and Crowley will put a boiler in her and a triple expansion engine...