Clockwise from top left: USS Albatross.

Fig 1: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. IX, Lower laboratory, looking from forward aft

Fig 2: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XXVII, Sigsbee’s machine for sounding the wire, rigged for reeling in

Fig 3: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XXV, Reeling engine

Fig 4: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XXI, Fresh-water distiller

Fig 5: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XV, Compound twin-screw engines

Fig 6: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XIV, Steam windlass and capstan

Fig 7: From Report, 1885 p. 112, Fig. XXII, Edison dynamo and Armington & Sims engine

Background image: Galtsoff, p. 42, Fig. 22: Credit: NOAA Fisheries. From NOAA archives gallery at https://apps-nefsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/rcb/photogallery/assorted.htm

References:

Galtsoff, P.S., 1962. The story of the bureau of commercial fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (Vol. 145). US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.

p.42: Background image

Report, 1885. U. S. Commission of Fish and Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner for 1883, 11, - Figs