One guest turned up with the leg from an old square piano that raised the steam pressure twenty pounds. Newcomers on board, observing the sweating fireman, try to be helpful in suggesting that it would be nice if we would devise some way to burn fuel oil. Many times in the past Phoebe has been anchored off shore while her lovers gathered drift wood. And there is no electric power on board. The lamps in the wheelhouse and after cabin are gimbal mounted and burn coal-oil as do the running lights.
All windows have linen curtains.
The engine room has a drop curtain of canvas to protect the room in bad weather, but it is a relief to have the whole area wide open when fired up. A great deal of research and writing has been done of late on Kingston's old limestone houses, but not much about the city's industry. The Davis Drydock Company was one of the great builders of steam launches on this continent. If your steam launch wasn't a Davis, you probably served beer on the lazerette instead of Champagne. The Davis Drydock Company is now Canadian Dredge and Dock Company, very busy with ship repairs.