MV Tallow

Command aft over the accommodation, one deck up from the mess deck's air; the crew's designed berths forward of it.

1. 1-01 Ladder well (head) Fr 182–192 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 14 — 'Efe came in from the ladder well with a rolled schematic under her arm'; ch14:89; ch20:65,:111

   The one vertically-confirmed stack on the ship: ladder well → cargo office → tween-deck → hold. Its head is drawn here; its foot is in the main hold.

2. 1-02 Crew berths (designed) Fr 226–300 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; The Way Out Closes, chapter 9 — 'every one of the nine had a berth and a berth's worth of water'

   Berths exist; nobody's door is ever placed. On the passage the crew slept aft instead, on the rigged deck (2-08). The 2334 sleeping list hung 'on its nail' at a frame near the boat bay (The Way Out Closes, chapter 9) — a later arrangement, not this one.

3. 1-03 Bridge Fr 300–350 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 18 ('the galley's clock and the bridge's clock months out from each other'); ch20:77 ('Corin's after that, when I was on the bridge'); ch06:27 ('My helm's been correcting to that wake for two days'); ch22:191 ('one deck up from her own dying air')

   The space is published; its position is the drawing's — a bulk hull with her machinery aft carries the bridge aft over the accommodation, and that puts it one deck up from the mess deck as the prose has it. Helm; the bridge clock, months out from the galley's. A 'second' stands watches here by 2342 (Inside the Window, chapter 8).

4. 1-04 Chart space Fr 350–370 fixed spec ruling 2026-08-01; published by 2342 — Inside the Window, chapter 8 ('Sleep happened at the chart table'),:35 ('In the chart room Ravn wrote the hour')

   Not mentioned in 2318; a chart table and a chart room are on the page in 2342. Drawn from the first because nothing says it was added.

5. 1-05 Master's cabin Fr 370–390 derived Master Cray, Who the Door Admits; never drawn

   Canon establishes a Master who died aboard and an acting Master who took her in; it does not draw the room. Efe keeps her own book in her jacket (Who the Door Admits, chapter 9,:175) and by 2342 sleeps at the chart table.

6. 1-06 Stern watch Fr 390–410 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 5 — 'a stern-watch rating carried her in and stood at Lote's shoulder'; ch05:157 (the rating who kept the count by hand for seventy-one days)

   The watch exists; its station is the drawing's. The rating who stood it kept the only hand tally aboard that was argued about at the time.

The deck the book walks: the cargo office off the after end of the hold, the lock, the mess and galley eleven metres aft of the office, the passage aft, and the sleeping deck rigged against the warm plating.

1. 2-01 Cargo office Fr 182–204 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 14 — 'The Tallow's cargo office was a steel box off the after end of the hold, cut for human shoulders. Fold-down desk at a human elbow's height, a bench, one light in a cage.'

   A hatch (ch14:27); a bulkhead locker that holds the ship's log and the rolled schematic (ch14:27,:71); 'Aboard a human hull there was never a stool' (ch14:7). Sesk wrote the souls schedule here standing, bent. Off the after end of the hold and eleven metres FORWARD of the crew mess.

2. 2-02 Ladder well Fr 182–192 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 14,:89 — 'Efe took her ladder without saying anything else'

   Beside the office. Down to the tween-deck and the hold; up to the bridge deck.

3. 2-03 Midships lock Fr 204–226 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9 — 'The isolation sleeve gave onto her midships lock'; ch22:191 — 'Fourteen at the inboard lock in the order your loadmaster gave me'

   The personnel lock. The Cairn's isolation sleeve mated here; ten of the fourteen came off through it (the four Sethlan went out by the cargo port, ch22:193). Through it Sesk is at once on the mess deck (ch09:99). The eleven metres between the cargo office and the crew mess is this lock's length. Out of service by 2342: 'the one working port' (Inside the Window, chapter 8) is the after cargo port.

4. 2-04 Galley Fr 226–250 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9–157 (the galley hatch and the strokes beside it); ch09:17 ('a galley printer that was never built for it'); ch18:9 ('the galley's clock'); Inside the Window, chapter 8 ('The galley heat went off')

   A galley printer that ran nine cradles' nutrient medium as food; the galley clock, months out from the bridge's. The galley hatch opens on the mess, four paces from the table. Side is the drawing's.

5. 2-05 Galley hatch — the tally frame Fr 238–244 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9–157 — 'went four paces to the galley hatch, and put two fingers on the frame beside it. There were strokes cut into the paint there. Hundreds of them, in fives, running from the deckhead down past the second locker and along toward the deck, gouged with the corner of something that had not been made for it.'

   Three hundred and thirty-one strokes, counted three times (ch09:161,:185). The strokes stop above the second locker for twenty-two counts and resume 'lower down, shallower, in another hand' for a fortnight before the first hand comes back (ch09:163). The sheet draws the gap and the change of hand and captions neither. Two lockers stand beside the hatch on the mess side (ch09:157,:163).

6. 2-06 Crew mess Fr 226–260 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 14 ('Lote had the crew mess to herself'); ch14:43 ('a mother eleven metres aft'); ch03:193 ('on the mess deck'); ch06:55 ('Amidships, the mess ports were lit and crowded')

   Eleven metres aft of the cargo office, on the shell side: a row of ports, and at the third of them Lote stood with the child up on her shoulder as the tender came round (ch06:55). Six lamps, two working (ch05:135). The table where the articles were read out and eleven marks put under them (ch03:193), where the child was delivered (ch09:121), and which Efe laid with a cloth for the loadmaster (ch09:101–103): 'Two cups. A pot standing on a heat pad, and beside it a thermal reading slip.' The heat pad lives on a shelf 'cut for it and nothing else' (The Way Out Closes, chapter 9). A bench (ch09:161). Dunnage lashed in a pattern; deckhead cabling bound up in strips of clothing; every locker labelled twice, once in stencil and once in chalk; the deck worn to bright metal along the one line the crew walked for eleven months to keep their legs (ch09:99). The ship's spare window — the camera pickup — is on this bulkhead (ch05:135). Port or starboard is never stated.

7. 2-07 Passage aft Fr 260–300 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9 ('Efe came out of the passage aft with the ship's log under one arm'); ch09:179 ('the passage door came to behind her and did not seat, and swung, and stayed open on the ordinary noise of a ship's afternoon: two voices, a hatch, somebody's radio')

   Runs aft from the mess to the sleeping deck and the machinery casing. Its door on the mess bulkhead does not seat. 3.3 m wide on this beam — the drawing's.

8. 2-08 Medical stores Fr 260–272 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20 — 'Lote's child came out of the medical stores, not the general. There's a separate book. It's thin.'

   A small store off the passage; placement the drawing's. The drug stock was kept in the cold locker with the Master (ch19:29).

9. 2-09 Sleeping deck, rigged Fr 300–340 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9 — 'Rig the sleeping deck aft where the plating stayed warmest.'

   Not a designed space. Rigged aft during the passage against the machinery casing, because that is the plating the reactor and the reclaim plant keep warm. Its extent is inferred from 'aft, where the plating stays warmest' and nothing more; the passage runs through it.

10. 2-10 Machinery casing — plant-room hatch Fr 340–396 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Who the Door Admits, chapter 18 ('One of the failed cartridges sat on a bench beyond the pane, inside the ship's plant-room hatch'); ch14:29 ('The umbilical crew got your after trunk warm')

    The top of the machinery casing on the mess-deck level: the plant-room hatch down to the water plant and the engine room, and the after trunk that the berth's umbilicals fed. The hatch is visible through the pass-through pane from the berth (ch18:5,:11), which puts it within sight of the lock lobby down the passage.

The upper cargo volume over the main hold, and the ladder landing over the number-two hold.

1. 3-01 Tween-deck Fr 40–180 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20 — 'Efe came down the ladder from the tween-deck without being sent for'

   Published once and never subdivided or furnished. Nothing is drawn on it that the page does not give. In 2342 she carries households on 'two plate decks' (Inside the Window, chapter 4) — a later fit, on the site sheet as a revision.

2. 3-02 Refrigeration and cradle bus over the number-two hold Fr 182–214 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Who the Door Admits, chapter 6 ('the only space we had at temperature'); ch02:238–242 ('There's a cradle bus. Four lines.' / 'Continuous for the whole count.')

   The plant that keeps the number-two hold at temperature, and the four-line cradle bus that ran continuously for the whole count. Placement the drawing's; the ladder passes through.

The main hold of eleven bays, and the number-two hold aft of it under the cargo office — the one space aboard at temperature.

1. 4-01 Main hold, bays 1–3 Fr 40–78 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20 — 'Tallied bays one to eleven and re-tallied bays three, six and nine'; ch20:83 ('Long steel, bay three. My loading tally has forty-one. Your chalk has forty-five. The depot's loading witness has forty-five.')

   Eleven bays; drawn evenly fore-to-aft because canon gives no other division, and 'the port bays' (ch20:65) may mean they pair athwartships. Bay three: long steel, forty-five pieces — the only bay whose contents canon gives. The hold as Sesk found it: 'Swept, and the sweepings bagged, and the bags stowed against the aft bulkhead with their necks turned the same way. Every strap on the tie-down rails ran to the same tension and was hitched to the same pattern. The dunnage timber had been broken out, stacked flat by length, and the short offcuts kept' (ch20:61).

2. 4-02 Main hold, bays 4–6 Fr 78–116 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20

   Consignment nine — 4,800 kg of bulk print feedstock for Ollery's chandlery — went out in these bays or others and came back as ration issues, dated, against the form for loss in transit with the cause left blank (ch03:85–89). No bay is given for it; none is drawn full.

3. 4-03 Main hold, bays 7–9 Fr 116–154 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20

   Along the port rail 'somebody had chalked a tally that had been added to and struck through and added to for the better part of a year, and at the end of it, in the same chalk, a running total' (ch20:61) – Efe's hand to the eighty-eighth, Corin's after (ch20:77). Corin's hand lamp hooks over the rail 'where the light was worst' (ch20:91).

4. 4-04 Main hold, bays 10–11 Fr 154–180 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 20; ch20:63 ('Sesk stood inside the lock … and read the hold')

   The hold's after end. A lock into the hold (ch20:63); the sweepings bagged against this bulkhead (ch20:61); the ladder from the tween-deck comes down here (ch20:65). The cargo office sits directly above.

5. 4-05 Number-two hold Fr 182–214 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 6 — 'He's in the number-two hold with the cargo. It was the only space we had at temperature.'; ch06:193 — 'Number two hold. Behind eleven-month seals, twelve metres from the dead man'; ch03:151 ('Class two decided which hold'); ch08:7 (the cradles); ch08:55 (never above nine degrees, never below two)

   A separate, refrigerable hold aft of the main hold, under the cargo office, at least twelve metres long. At the print date it holds six crates of thirty-one sealed transit cradles — 'Cargo-standard, forty litres, jacketed, each with a gas port and a window in the port collar' (ch08:7) — at one end, and Master Cray's remains at the other, twelve metres from them. The cradle bus runs to the crates. Discharged down the ramp on Day 5 (ch14:225); the remains then went to the provisions-deck cold store (Rev A). By 2342 this is 'an after hold that clears by the morning bell once the trim's off it' (Inside the Window, chapter 4). Position relative to the ladder well is the drawing's.

The plant, the water, the tanks, and the cold store with the third locker in it.

1. 5-01 Forepeak and stores Fr 10–40 fixed spec ruling 2026-08-01

   Never named. Dry ration at departure was 340 kg, the statutory thirty-day reserve at ten souls (Who the Door Admits, chapter 3); where it was stowed is not given.

2. 5-02 Double bottom — tanks and forward trim Fr 40–226 fixed spec ruling 2026-08-01; trim tanks from Inside the Window, chapter 8 ('what the pumps could move went forward')

   Tankage is real and never placed. She trims by the stern when deep-loaded and her pumps move ballast forward to buy it back (2342), so trim tanks are drawn at both ends of the run.

3. 5-03 Provisions deck — cold store, third locker Fr 226–270 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 9 — 'He's in the cold store on the provisions deck. Third locker.'; ch09:125 ('One hundred and four kilograms … Entered under stores, cold, non-consumable'); ch09:195 ('a man in the third locker of the provisions deck, forty metres behind him'); ch19:29 (the drug stock kept in the same locker)

   Three lockers drawn; the third marked and not captioned. Within forty metres of the apron bollard at the sleeve mouth, which fixes it under the mess and galley. The remains are here from Day 5 (Rev A); at the print date they are in the number-two hold (4-05).

4. 5-04 After trim tanks and grey holding Fr 270–340 fixed spec ruling 2026-09-21; Who the Door Admits, chapter 18–27 — 'Grey holding's at ninety-one percent.' / 'It was eighty-four last night. My engineer has been running the reclaim on recirculate to keep the pumps from seizing, and recirculate makes heat, and heat makes condensate, and the condensate goes to the same tank.'

   The figure is published; the tank's placement is the drawing's. At the print date (Day 4) the gauge reads about eighty-four; ninety-one by Day 11. Nineteen hours of independent reserve against seventy-two required (ch18:31).

5. 5-05 Water plant Fr 340–370 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 18 — 'The Tallow's water plant had three barrier stacks. They had left the yards two years back and come home crazed through the potting, weeping at the ends, failing a leak-check by a margin nobody could argue with.'; ch18:11 (the bench and the hatch); ch18:51 ('Lote is on this channel at the plant-room panel')

   Three barrier stacks, crazed through the potting. A bench inside the hatch with a failed cartridge on it — 'a white cylinder gone the colour of weak tea, a hairline map crawling all over it' — and the plant-room panel. Scrubber bins for thirty cartridges, every one baked out four times (ch09:13). On a passage of that length this is the thing that decides whether anybody is alive to argue about the clocks.

6. 5-06 Engine room Fr 340–396 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 7 — 'Eleven months in that engine room, and the last four of them her keeping us alive with her hands.'; ch06:87 (the reactor to standby; 'somewhere inside her a pump that had been running eleven months stopped'); ch06:107 ('your reactor log')

   Reactor and the pumps. Her plating is warmest here, which is why the sleeping deck was rigged over it. The engineer's eleven months in this room went on her ticket as eleven, not twelve (ch24:19).

7. 5-07 Main engine — thrust structure Fr 396–410 published Who the Door Admits, chapter 6 — 'a good clean plume signature, plasma temperatures, everything a hauler's main engine ought to put behind it'

   One main engine with a plasma plume, astern. Type and thrust never given; nothing is drawn that the page does not.