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NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8-86) Wisconsin Word Processing Format (Approved 3/87) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Schooner-barge PRETORIA Section 7 Page 5 Ashland County, WI with a timber room of 12 inches and space of 11 inches. A section of steel hawsepipe is extant in the port bow section. This hawsepipe measures 17 inches in outer diameter, 14 inches inner diameter, and 7 feet 7 inches in length. This extraordinary length is due to the fact that the Pretoria carried modern stockless anchors (Saginaw Courier-Herald 27 July 1900), which were not catted to the rail, as with stock anchors, but were pulled up into the hawsepipes until the flukes met the hull. The long hawsepipe thus functioned as a storage cylinder for the anchor shank. A segment of the original anchor chain remains attached to the windlass, despite the 1961 salvage of the Pretoria's anchors. The chain consists of large stud-links, each 10 inches in length and 6 inches in width. The inverted section of maindeck and the steam windlass are the highest point on the wreck, rising up to an approximate depth of 46 feet, and commanding a fine view of the massive stem and bow construction. The steam windlass is a patent type, similar to that used aboard the Frank O'Connor. The windlass barrel was originally driven by an overhead crank and worm gear, powered by a two- cylinder steam engine mounted on the windlass base. Now inverted, the windlass has a small instruction plate on its after end commanding its operator to " [k]eep the worm well slushed and the bearings well oiled." The donkey boiler which powered the windlass and pumps was probably one of the items recovered by sports divers (Wolff 1990:108) . Its disposition is unknown. A brick and steel assembly lies aft of the windlass on the portside, and was probably the fireproof bed for the donkey boiler. A fragment of what appears to be a steel hatch cover also lies in this area. The portside of the hull exposes the inboard architecture which supported the main deck and the lower deck, as well as portions of the rail. The maindeck beams and waterway are gone, confirming another aspect of the historical record regarding the wreck, but the shelves and hanging knees are extant. The main deck shelves are three in number, measuring 11 inches in width and 5 inches in thickness (33 inches total shelf width). The main deck knees range between 3 6 and 42 inches on the vertical arm, 25 inches on the horizontal arm, and were spaced between 24 and 27 inches. The gap left by the now-missing maindeck beams indicates that they