They are almost like the shape of children's paper boats, high out of the water, over four feet freeboard and seven feet beam, and I'd say about twenty-five to thirty feet over all, with practically flat bottoms.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
When loaded with all these people and her stores, she had not seven inches of freeboard.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
She was designed by Captain Schanck, one of the naval transport commissioners, and when she sailed from Portsmouth to begin her survey service in Australia, she was so deeply laden for her size that she had less than three feet of freeboard.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery